I have Van Gogh's ear for music

Not one word of the following is true

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

The other man's arse is always cleaner!

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

My father was all brain and little heart.

If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist

My parents were marvelously educated people.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

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