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'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone