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From Lewinsky to Asquith, Aitken to Zappa, certain phrases have come back to either haunt or honour the great and the good. Containing over 8,000 quotations, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations is an entertaining romp through the wit and wisdom of the eminently quotable. Why not test your knowledge of who said what in the great quotations quiz?

1) 'The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.'
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Richard Nixon

Harry Truman

2) 'Scratch a lover, and find a foe'
Dorothy Parker

Cynthia Ozick

Camille Paglia

3) 'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be me but I had it surgically removed.'
Woody Allen

Peter Sellers

Spike Milligan

4) 'As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the 20th Century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.'
Timothy Leery

Andy Warhol

Will Self

5) 'If you sometimes feel depressed or let down, if you're suffering from the pressures of life, or simply having a plain old grey day, my advice is to roast a chicken'
Delia Smith

Jamie Oliver

Gary Rhodes

6) 'At 50 every man has the face that he deserves'
Albert Camus

Vladimir Nabokov

George Orwell

7) 'The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies'
Ian Paisley

Salman Rushdie

Terry Waite

8) 'A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.'
Josef Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Sadam Hussein

9) 'A woman rang to say she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, don't worry there isn't!'
Michael Fish

Ian McAskill

John Ketley

10) 'The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted'
Pope John Paul II

Desmond Tutu

Mother Teresa

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