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'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell