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'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien