Alan Coren Famous Quotes



"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."

"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."


Alan Coren Quotations






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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

No good plan survives contact with the enemy.
Unknown

"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."
Etty Hillesum

"We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children."
American Indian Proverb

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
Marcel Proust

"Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting."
William Shakespeare

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T S Eliot

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J Smith