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'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'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
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw