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'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair

'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill

'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens

'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf

'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill

'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand

'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard

'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake

'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson

'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan

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

'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke

'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton

'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte

'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson

'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster

'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare

'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie

'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender

'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey

'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov

'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe

'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley

'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell

'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George

'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson

'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry

'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron

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