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'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'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
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale