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'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli