Tom Shakespeare

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

When you are dead, you’ll regret not having fun with your genital organs

Joe Orton

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.

Oscar Wilde

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Give me books, fruit, french wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.

John Keats

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Proverbs

If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

John Keats

Poetry is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Peter Porter

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you are an artist.

Max Jacob