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'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot