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'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp

'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox

'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore

'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett

'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud

'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming

'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan

'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats

'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron

'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke

'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More

'Never trust a man who does not have a single redeeming vice'.. Winston Churchill

'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift

'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson

'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin

'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis

'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence

'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw

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

'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf

'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde

'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton

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