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'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith