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'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel