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'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon