Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvellous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Herrick JohnsonIf men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda EllerbeeA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard ShawLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsWe are entering a new era of our history and all Iraqis - whether they voted or not - should stand side by side to build their future.
Iyad AllawiThe family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIIIMost people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...
Peggy NoonanThere is a lot to be said in the Decade of Evangelism for believing more and more in less and less
John YatesWe have a problem in this country with political correctness - bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom.
Mike NewellBut it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Simon SchamaIt was a bit frustrating to end on 99 not out obviously, but Thorpey just took the run! [on never making a century for England but a game ending with him 99not out]
Alex TudorParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovThere is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric HofferDo not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Robert AshleyThe Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph JoubertA definition of capitalism... the process whereby American girls turn into American women. (Savages)
Christopher HamptonIf you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
Robert SoutheyOne more drink and I'll be under the host
Dorothy ParkerWhen the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean Paul SartreWhat are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of - is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
John OsborneHe is a seasoned campaigner and he bounced back even better in his second spell. He knows what he has to do. It's a matter of getting his body in the right shape to be able to do what he wants it to do. [on Glenn McGrath]
Ricky PontingSelf-truth is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson'It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes the
strength of the team.' - A team-building tip
Steve RedgraveI'm made up to have been made the England captain by Fabio
Steven GerrardThe Civil Service is profoundly deferential - 'Yes Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'
Richard CrossmanI can make Tony Blair, Michael Howard, Charles Kennedy or anyone else look bumbling, irrelevant, tetchy... or rather brilliant.
Andrew MarrUnprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward GibbonTo have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William OslerThe first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas MertonThe king is the man who can.
Keith Richards'If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.'
Audrey HepburnThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre MauroisI couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
Leonardo DicaprioThe worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
David LettermanActing is much more reactive - you get told what to do and you do it. With artistry you start with a blank canvass and you go on from there.
John GloverIf you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
HeraclitusCollege isn't the place to go for ideas
Helen KellerWe will be able to change policy. There will be coalitions of the enlightened, Labour will not be able to get their own way - and nor should they.
Simon HughesIt's something that I always dreamed of, and I would love one day to have that feeling with the singles trophy [on winning Wimbledon mixed doubles]
Jelena JankovicThe man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett MardenYou can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig ZiglarYour first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques RousseauToday, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald ReaganThe doctor syringed one maggot out my ear and then said oh he's got a brother and a second one emerged! [On maggot removal a week after leaving Im a celebrity get me out of here]
Myleene KlassMom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.
Hilary DuffIt was the 95th minute of their usual seven minutes of injury time [on a late equaliser scored by Aston Villa]
Sir Alex FergusonHow often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
Henry MelvilleBeautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas, I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remeber'd for a very long time.
William McGonagallFor some reason, I picked up the book. [Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman]
Elizabeth BuchanI'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl.
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