"I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum."

-- Les Dawson

#Shields Quotes #Red Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show.”
“Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.
“It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”
“Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.”
“Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”
“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

Source : David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”
“Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.”
“You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.”

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