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'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp