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'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst