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'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge