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'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens