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'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams