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'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome

'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone

'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb

'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell

'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost

'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift

'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff

'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge

'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron

'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden

'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell

'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell

'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster

'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson

'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney

'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West

'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick

'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley

'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand

'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I

'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook

'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher

'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell

'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones

'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad

'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc

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