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- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
- I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
- Joe Orton (1933 - 1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)
- I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954), Outspoken Essays (1919)
- Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), Women and Liberty
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700), Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
- We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Alan Bennett, Getting On (1972)
- It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
- Christopher Hampton, Treats (1976), Scene IV
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