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'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven