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'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton

'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best

'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon

'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm

'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter

'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith

'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke

'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer

'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry

'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes

'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm

'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge

'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster

'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor

'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh

'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst

'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot

'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell

'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw

'An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.'.. Agatha Christie

'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas

'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith

'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson

'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot

'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese

'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas

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