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'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.'.. GK Chesterton
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton