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'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw