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'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare