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'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley