Winston Churchill
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'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher

'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope

'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen

'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger

'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw

'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey

'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke

'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke

'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren

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

''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb

'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie

'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey

'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr

'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman

'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke

'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake

'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair

'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf

'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot

'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin

'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson

'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde

'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant

'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin

'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan

'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill

'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton

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