The following t-shirt designs from our catalogue have been tagged "Quote". Click on any thumbnail image to see all the formats that the design is available in.
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"And Those Who Were Seen Dancing" T-Shirt And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music - attributed variously to Friedrich Nietzsche, Anne Louise... |
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"Has Tha Nowt Moist?" T-Shirt Peter Kay on the idiosyncrasies of the southern chip shop: They don't do peas down south. I went into a chippy I said Chips and peas, please. He said We don't... |
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"Say Hello To My Little Friend" T-Shirt Al Pachino as Tony Montana, AKA Scarface, complete with his M16 rifle and attached M203 Grenade Launcher. One of the most famous lines in modern cinema. This... |
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"This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie T-Shirt This land is your land, and this land is my land, from California, to the New York island... Woody Guthrie, one of the godfathers of folk music, with his ode to... |
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"You Talkin' To Me?" T-Shirt Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle with one of the world's most famous ad-libs. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else... |
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40 is the Old Age of Youth... T-Shirt 50 is the Youth of Old Age. OK, so we are all getting older. Grey hair, crows' feet, incessant aches and pains where once there were none. Perhaps you are... |
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Alan Partridge "Kiss My Face" T-Shirt Everyone's favourite hapless Radio Norwich DJ; Alan Partridge. Complete with one of his catchphrases: Kiss my face! |
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Alan Turing T-Shirt Scientist, mathematician, cryptanalyst, genius. The father of artificial intelligence and developer of the Turing Test. Here included with the opening lines... |
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Albert Einstein "Creativity" Quote T-Shirt Dr. Albert Einstein quoted talking candidly on the true extent of his genius: The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources |
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Albert Einstein "Genius" Quote T-Shirt Demonstrate your aptitude for problem prevention; Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them, quoted by the great Dr. Albert Einstein. |
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Albert Einstein "Imagination" Quote T-Shirt Imagination is more important than knowledge. Featuring an image of the great Albert Einstein on the front, Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1921 and author of... |
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Albert Einstein "Simple" Quote T-Shirt Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler; Albert Einstein advocates the diffusion of knowledge whilst railing against the tendency to dumb down. |
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Aldous Huxley "Facts" Quote T-Shirt Facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley on religion, science, politics.... |
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Allen Ginsberg T-Shirt The original leader and spokesperson of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg: radical, nonconformist, free-speech activist, gay rights campaigner and poet. His... |
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Amy Winehouse T-Shirt 21st century musical icon Amy Winehouse is depicted here in the instantly recognizable style of a Roy Lichtenstein print. This t-shirt design steals a line from... |
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Apocalypse Now T-Shirt Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust. Put on psy-war-op. Make it loud. This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we dance? |
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Art Should... T-Shirt Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. We've seen this quote attributed to a few people, not least of whom Banksy. It was too good not to... |
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Arthur Scargill T-Shirt Leader of the NUM during the 1980's miners' strike and scourge of Thatcher, here resplendent with a quote of his on his approach to protest: What you need is... |
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Bad Mother Fucker Wallet By popular request, our friends at Mustard Accessories have released the classic Pulp Fiction Bad Mother Fucker wallet, as owned by Jules Winnfield (Samual L... |
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Before You Speak... T-Shirt Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence Shirdi Sai Baba extols the virtues of thinking... |
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Behold Your Future Executioners T-Shirt A quote attributed to the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century anarchist and activist Lucy Parsons. |
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Benjamin Franklin "Beer" Quote T-Shirt It may well be the case that Mr. Franklin did not actually utter these words, but we like the idea of a founding father expressing his love for the amber nectar... |
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Bertrand Russell "Trouble With The World" quote T-Shirt The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - the British philosopher Bertrand Russell puts his finger... |
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Bill Hicks T-Shirt A classic, much loved and much missed American comedian. I don't mean to sound bitter, cold or cruel, but I am. So that's how it comes out. |
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Billy Bragg T-Shirt The Dagenham troubadour and anti-fascist activist. Complete with guitar and line pinched from A New England; one of his most famous songs: I don't want to... |
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Bob Crow T-Shirt Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards - the immortal words of Bob Crow, General Secretary of the... |
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Bob Dylan "I Don't Believe You" T-Shirt From what is probably the most famous heckle in music history, and a defining moment in rock music. The Manchester Free Trade Hall concert in 1966: Judas! I... |
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Brecht "Bank" Quote T-Shirt From Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Macheath: Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank? (English... |
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Bruce "Brucie" Forsyth T-Shirt The much-loved Bruce Forsyth, host of countless game shows and light-entertainment spectaculars along with your choice of Brucie catchphrase: Good game, good... |
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Buenaventura Durruti T-Shirt Durruti was a prominent anarchist leader during the Spanish Civil War. He initially was key in preventing the military uprising in Barcelona, preventing it from... |
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Cake or Death T-Shirt Eddie Izzard's take on the fundamentals of the Church of England: Cake or death? That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that. Cake or death? Eh... |
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Carl Sagan "Apple Pie" T-Shirt Our favourite atheist astronomer's succinct demonstration that everything in the universe is fundamentally interconnected: If you wish to make an apple pie from... |
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Carpe Diem T-Shirt By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow). A common... |
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Chaiman Mao Tse-Tung Quote T-Shirt Choose your favourite words of wisdom, many taken from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book: In waking a tiger, use a long stick, Learn from the masses, and then... |
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Charles Bukowski T-Shirt Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski: laureate of American lowlife, author and poet (1920-1994). |
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Conformity Means Death - Bertrand Russell T-Shirt Bertrand Russell: philosopher, mathematician, pacifist. Conformity means death. Only protest gives a hope of life. |
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Dalai Lama T-Shirt We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves - his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the head of state and the spiritual leader of... |
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Donald Morgan "Bible" Quote T-Shirt Internet secularist Donald Morgan sums up the inherent problem of delving too deeply into religion: A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the... |
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Dorian Gray T-Shirt The opening lines of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, telling the story of a young man obsessed with his own image whose own features... |
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Dorothy Parker T-Shirt Purveyor of one of the most caustic wits in living memory, Dorothy Parker was a writer, poet and broadcaster. Blacklisted as a communist, honoured for her civil... |
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Dorothy Parker "Girls Who Wear Glasses" T-Shirt Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses - Dorothy Parker, the great American author, poet and wit, on the tribulations of the ocularly challenged. |
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Doubleplusungood T-Shirt times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling. The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in The... |
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Douglas Adams "People Who Want to Rule" Quote T-Shirt The Hitch-Hikers' Guide author details his inherent mistrust of politicians: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso... |
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Duncan Bannatyne T-Shirt Everyone's favourite Dragon. Well, apart from Peter Jones maybe. And that James Khan seems a very nice bloke. Deborah Meaden frankly scares us though. Star of... |
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Emmeline Pankhurst T-Shirt The godmother of civil disobedience and one of the founders of the suffragette movement, depicted here accompanied by one of her quotes: Trust in God; She... |
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Epicurus "Whence Is Evil" Quote T-Shirt Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence... |
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Et Tu Brute T-Shirt Shakespeare's take on Caesar's ultimate betrayal. You too, Brutus? Choose white or black print either on the front or, for extra poignancy, the back. |
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Fetchez La Vache T-Shirt I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough whopper! I fart in your general direction! You mother was a hamster and your father... |
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Ford, You're Turning Into A Penguin. Stop It. T-Shirt The effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy on Ford Prefect. |
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Forest Precedes Man, Desert Follows Him T-Shirt François René Chateaubriand's nineteenth century opinion on the inevitable legacy of humanity: The forest precedes man and desert follows him |
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Frank Sobotka T-Shirt The secretary treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores, as seen in the awesome TV show The Wire, season two. The quote here is taken from the... |
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Frankie Howerd T-Shirt Star of Carry On and, of course Up Pompeii, queen of the double entendre: Oh look at the way it is today, It's getting out of hand, There's no... |
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Franz Kafka "Meaning Of Life" Quote T-Shirt The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka offers his opinion on the existence, or otherwise, of the afterlife. |
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Fred Dibnah T-Shirt The Bolton steeplejack who became a national institution, complete with a trademark phrase: By 'eck it were grand. |
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Friedrich Engels T-Shirt Pictured here in his younger days, and missing his signature full-flowing beard. Friedrich Engels worked together with Karl Marx on the original publications... |
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Friedrich Nietzsche Gott Ist Tot T-Shirt Friedrich Nietzsche's assertion of the lack of relevance of religion in modern society: God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him |
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Gabba Gabba Hey T-Shirt Call to arms of the Ramones and all-round punk-rock slogan. |
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George Bush Quote: The Problem With The French T-Shirt When the leader of the Free World speaks, people sit up and take notice. Even if what he says is complete and utter bollocks. The problem with the French is... |
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George Bush: Is Our Children Learning? T-Shirt More words of wisdom from Dubya: Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?. Indeed it is, George, indeed it is. |
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George Carlin "American Dream" T-Shirt They call it the American Dream: because you have to be asleep to believe it.. Taken from the late, great, American comic's rant about the malign influence of... |
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George Orwell "Rough Men" Quote T-Shirt People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf, a quote attributed to George Orwell (though... |
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George Orwell "Who Controls the Past" T-Shirt Nineteen eighty four's chilling dystopian vision on the power of media control: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told... |
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George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt One of the greatest authors in British history, George Orwell a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. A hero of anyone struggling against tyranny, his philosophies on civil... |
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George Orwell Power Quote T-Shirt George Orwell voices his mistrust for those who seek to engage in revolutionary activities in order to establish a position of authority: Power is not a... |
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Gimli: Certainty of Death Quote T-Shirt Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?. The Lord of the Rings' favourite dwarf in philosophical mood. |
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Gonzo Fist T-Shirt Based on a design used by the Hunter S Thompson's campaign to be elected Sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The two thumbed, clenched fist is depicted clutching a... |
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Gordon Ramsay T-Shirt The world's foremost chef of celebrity lets rip. Worst fucking meal fucking ever. |
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Groucho Marx T-Shirt Julius Henry Groucho Marx, complete with moustache, eyebrows and glasses. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception |
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HAL9000: "I'm Sorry Dave" T-Shirt Chilling words from 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL9000 - I'm Sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that, depicted here as the red camrea-eye that appears throughout... |
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He Who Has The Youth Has The Future T-Shirt A quote from Leon Trotsky (though some also credit Lenin) in response to criticism by some of the age of many of the Bolsheviks: He who has the youth, has the... |
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Hitch-Hikers' Guide "In The Beginning" T-Shirt The opening lines to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, part two of the five-part Hitch Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy trilogy; probably the greatest... |
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Hugo Chavez "Revolution" T-Shirt An image taken from a photograph of a mural sent to us by a traveller in Chavez's Venezuela. The text (roughly) translates as: Working with the people must be... |
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Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt Gonzo's premier exponent and gun-toting psychedelic genius, Hunter S Thompson, with his views on narcotics, firearms and mental instability: I hate to... |
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I Like Short Songs T-Shirt Lyrical genius from California punk rockers the Dead Kennedys: I like short songs (repeat 13 times). |
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I Shot A Man In Reno T-Shirt When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son, Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, When I hear... |
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Ian Brown: I Am The Resurrection T-Shirt King Monkey - Ian Brown - former frontman of the Stone Roses with the defining lyric of one of the greatest songs of all time: I am the resurrection and I am... |
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Ian Curtis "Love Will Tear Us Apart" T-Shirt Ian Curtis, tragic lead singer of Joy Division, and the creator of one of the finest songs ever made. |
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Ian Hislop T-Shirt Esteemed Private Eye editor, Have I Got News For You panellist and the most sued man in English legal history (allegedly). Here with his quote on emerging... |
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Ich Bin Ein Berliner T-Shirt So, the whole I am a doughnut thing may well disappointingly prove to be something of an urban legend, but we still like the idea! |
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If Homosexuality Is A Disease... T-Shirt If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.' Robin Tyler, gay civil rights activist. |
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It's Turtles All The Way Down T-Shirt The perils of the atheist, faced with unquestioned religious dogma, as taken from Chapter One of Professor Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time: A... |
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It's Worse Than That, He's Dead Jim T-Shirt Dr Leonard Bones McCoy's stock response to any fatality-inducing disaster (and there were many) befalling Star Trek's Starship Enterprise during its five year... |
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J'Accuse T-Shirt The famous headline taken from an open letter written by Émile Zola to the French newspaper L'Aurore in 1898 accusing the French government of anti-Semitism... |
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Jack Kerouac "Road To Heaven" Quote T-Shirt Taken from On The Road, Beat generation hero Kerouac's most famous work. Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Enslaved" Quote T-Shirt None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The author of Faust theorises on the perceptions versus the realities of... |
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Johnny Ball "Think of a Number" T-Shirt The man who turned a generation of schoolchildren into wannabe scientists and mathematicians. You can bet you'll never see his like on TV ever again. |
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Josef Stalin "Capitalists" Quote T-Shirt Attributed originally to Lenin, but popularised by Uncle Joe. Stalin shows his comic side in a rare moment of Soviet irony: When we hang the capitalists they... |
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Josef Stalin "Cast The Votes" Quote T-Shirt Words of wisdom from Uncle Joe: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. A philosophy still very relevant today. |
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Josiah Stamp "Banking" Quote T-Shirt Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the... |
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Karl Marx T-Shirt The father of communism and author of Das Kapital, the great Karl Marx. Includes one of his most famous quotes on the reverse: Workers of the world unite. You... |
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Kenneth Willlams T-Shirt Oh, matron! The beloved star of countless Carry On films and camp cult British icon, Kenneth Williams is shown here accompanied by the Carry On Cleo quote voted... |
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Kevin McCloud: Integrity T-Shirt Presenter of Channel 4's excellent Grand Designs. A suggestion for a way in which to pass an evening whilst Kevin despair as he watches someone try to build a... |
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Know Your Rights T-Shirt Wise words from Joe Strummer and the Clash. Number 3: You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it. |
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Kurt Cobain "Hated" Quote T-Shirt Genius philosophy from the king of grunge, Kurt Cobain: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. |
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Kurt Vonnegut "So It Goes" T-Shirt Frequent refrain in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five which coincides with any theme of death appearing during the novel. |
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Lenny Bruce "Fuck the Government" T-Shirt Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government Lenny Bruce: comic genius, 1925-1966. |
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Leo Tolstoy Beauty Delusion Quote T-Shirt It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy shows no mercy for superficiality. |
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Let's Kill all the Lawyers T-Shirt Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2, Act 4, scene ii: DICK The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. |
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Lily Tomlin "Rat Race" Quote T-Shirt A t-shirt design celebrating American actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin's views on the modern world: The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win... |
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Lord of All The Animals T-Shirt An eloquent dismantling of the role of humanity taken from Old Major's speech to the collected animals in George Orwell's Animal Farm: Man is the only... |
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Lord What Fools These Mortals Be: Shakespeare Quote T-Shirt Taken from Act 3 of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The mischievous Puck ridicules the foolish ways in which passions cause humans to act. |
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Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None. T-Shirt Wise words of advice from the Countess of Rousillon in William Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well, Act 1, Scene I. |
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Lower-Upper-Middle Class T-Shirt From George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier: I was born into what you might describe as the lower-upper-middle class. The upper-middle class, which had its... |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein "Silent" Quote T-Shirt From Wittgenstein's 1922 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent. This quote is available in either the... |
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Mahatma Gandhi T-Shirt Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance and father of the Indian nation. This... |
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Malcolm Tucker "Sweaty Balls" Quote T-Shirt The best director of communications that Number 10 has never had lets rip at an obese American: Kiss my sweaty balls, you fat fuck |
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Malcolm X "Oppression" Quote T-Shirt The late Malcolm X on the dangers of an agenda-led media: If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and... |
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Mario Savio T-Shirt The most famous section of student activist Savio's speech on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement... |
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Mark Twain "Schooling" Quote T-Shirt The value of a good school vs the value of a good education, as evidenced as far back as the 19th century by Mark Twain: I have never let my schooling interfere... |
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Martin Luther King "Unjust Laws" Quote T-Shirt Taken from Dr Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 open Letter from a Birmingham Jail in which he succinctly advocated non-violent protest and civil disobedience: One... |
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Martin Luther King Jr T-Shirt A typographic portrait of the late American civil rights leader, comprised of text from his most famous speech and overlaid on a United States flag. |
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Marvin T-Shirt What to do with a maniacally depressed robot? You think you've got problems, what are you supposed to do if you are a maniacally depressed robot? Life, don't... |
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Mikhail Bakunin T-Shirt One of the most famous quotes from Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, summing-up his view of the paradox offered by traditional political theory... |
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Mikhail Bakunin "People's Stick" Quote T-Shirt When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.' Bakunin's famous quote taken from his 1873 work... |
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Moby Dick Opening Lines T-Shirt Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville's introduction to his novel about a man (Captain Ahab) and an enormous marine mammal (Moby Dick). Possibly the more famous... |
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Money Doesn't Talk It Swears T-Shirt Bob Dylan makes his début on the front of a US dollar bill with a sentiment we can all share. From it's alright Ma, I'm only bleeding; Obscenity, who really... |
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Mr T T-Shirt 6 foot-odd and with enough Elizabeth Duke bling to bring down the A-Team chopper. Perhaps that's why his favourite phrase was ain't goin' in no plane, fool. 80s... |
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Nelson Mandela T-Shirt Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, former freedom fighter, political prisoner and South African President. In this t-shirt design he is accompanied by a quote... |
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No, Mr Bond, I Expect You To Die T-Shirt Printed in Auric Goldfinger gold, quite probably the greatest line uttered in fifty years of James Bond films. Sean Connery as Bond is strapped, spread-eagled... |
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Noam Chomsky "Terrorism" Quote T-Shirt Sometime linguistic sage, sometime political activist. Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism |
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Nye Bevan "Expensive Television Sets" Quote T-Shirt Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets. Aneurin Nye Bevan predicts the... |
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Nye Bevan "Middle of the Road" Quote T-Shirt We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. The great Aneurin Bevan, architect of the National Health Service, on... |
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Nye Bevan "Vermin" Quote T-Shirt An abridged quote of Aneurin Nye Bevan, given during a speech at the Bellvue Hotel on 3 July 1948, two days before the National Health Service came into being... |
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Oceania Is At War With Eastasia T-Shirt Another t-shirt design inspired by George Orwell's 1984. Minitrue, the ministry of truth, brings you footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam... |
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Omar Little T-Shirt I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?. Omar Little; the Robin Hood of Baltimore and one of the most interesting and... |
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Omnishambles T-Shirt The lexicon from The Thick Of It that has been named the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. To the uninitiated, it is defined as meaning a... |
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Orson Welles "Class Distinction" Quote T-Shirt The greatest film director of all time on his view of the only difference between criminals and the wealthy: Criminals are never very amusing. It's because... |
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Orson Welles "Happy Ending" Quote T-Shirt If you want a happy ending that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles, possibly the greatest film director of all time, in especially... |
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Oscar Wilde "Drinking Classes" Quote T-Shirt Work is the curse of the drinking classes. The great Oscar Wilde slums it with the rest of us. |
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Oscar Wilde "Within Their Means" Quote T-Shirt Great Victorian playwright and wit Oscar Wilde's quote which resonates loudly in today's debt-ridden society: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a... |
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "To Be Governed" T-Shirt To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked... |
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Plato "Politics" Quote T-Shirt Plato encourages the masses to engage with the democratic process: He who refuses to be involved in politics must endure being ruled by inferior people |
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Plato "Wise Men" Quote T-Shirt The Classical Greek philosopher's views on the virtues of keeping quiet when you have nothing to say: Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools... |
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Professor Brian Cox T-Shirt Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture - wise words from Prof. Brian Cox OBE of the University of Manchester (and the BBC), the man who... |
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Ratners "Total Crap" T-Shirt Printed in 9-carat gold coloured text, Gerald Ratner's infamous technique of brand-building: People say, How can you sell this for such a low price? I say... |
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Romani Ite Domum - Romans Go Home T-Shirt Protest and civil disobedience from Monty Python's Life of Brian Brian has just been caught by a Centurion painting an anti-Roman slogan and gets an impromptu... |
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Ron Pickering "It's An Enormous One" T-Shirt Oh, it's an enormous one. My goodness me it's an enormous one!. Ron Pickering's reaction to Bob Beamon's monster long-jump at the 1968 Mexico Olympics goes... |
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Rush Red Star T-Shirt Neil Peart, possibly the best drummer in the world, explaining Rush's imagery and individualist philosophy: All it means is the abstract man against the masses... |
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Salvador Allende T-Shirt The first Marxist leader to gain power via democratic means, Allende was elected President of Chile in 1970. His socialist policies, and his relationship with... |
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Samuel Johnson "Patriotism" Quote T-Shirt Author of the ground breaking A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, Dr Johnson's most famous quotation espouses his views on those who will appeal to... |
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Second Verse, Same As The First T-Shirt Rock out with the Ramones: Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt; they both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades; and oh, I don't know why oh, I don't know... |
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Shakespeare "Hell Is Empty" Quote T-Shirt A fairly negative view of the world taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest: Hell is empty, And all the devils are here (1.2.214-15). |
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Sir Alan Sugar "You're Fired" T-Shirt The pantomime villain from the Apprentice TV show, Sir Alan Sugar. Pictured here in his younger days alongside his trademark catchphrase You're fired in Amstrad... |
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Spike Milligan "I Told You I Was Ill" T-Shirt Author, comedian, Goon and scourge of Hitler and Muzak. The funniest person of the last 1000 years (according to a BBC poll), together with his epitaph: I... |
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Stephen Fry T-Shirt Featuring a stylised image of the face of the great Stephen John Fry composed of a quote of his describing his philosophy of his purpose in life: I am a lover... |
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Steve Jones "Chaos" Quote T-Shirt Actually we're not into music. We're into chaos. - The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones as quoted in New Musical Express in 1976 shortly before unleashing their own... |
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Subcomandante Marcos T-Shirt The face of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) (albeit permanently hidden behind trademark balaclava). Includes Marcos' reposte to government... |
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T.S. Eliot "How Far" Quote T-Shirt Poet and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot on the need to take a risk every once in a while: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how... |
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Teen Spirit T-Shirt A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Kurt Cobain circa 1991. |
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The All Singing All Dancing Crap of the World T-Shirt One of Durden's scathing rants about society's futile search for happiness through consumerism: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the... |
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The Force Is Strong With This One T-Shirt The classic Star Wars quote uttered by Darth Vader when dogfighting with a young Luke Skywalker. Complete with Rebel Alliance logo and printed in gold. |
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The World Is Your Lobster T-Shirt George Cole and Dennis Waterman, stars of the 80s TV classic Minder. Cole played Arthur Daley in possibly his most famous role - he also appeared in the St... |
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They Don't Like It Up 'Em T-Shirt Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC comedy masterpiece Dad's Army complete with trademark observation: They don't like it up 'em. Don't panic! |
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Thomas Paine "Religion" T-Shirt My country is the world, my religion to do good, a quote from Thomas Paine: radical, revolutionary, Deist and founding father. |
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Time is an Illusion (Lunchtime Doubly So) T-Shirt Drink up, said Ford, you've got three pints to get through. Three pints? said Arthur. At lunchtime? The man next to ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford... |
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Tolpuddle Martyrs T-Shirt The Tolpuddle Martyrs were the forefathers of the modern Trades Union movement. The lines here were written by George Loveless shortly before they were... |
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Tom Waits "No Devil" Quote T-Shirt Don't you know there ain't no devil: there's just God when he's drunk. Tom Waits lyrics from Heartattack And Vine, from the 1980 album of the same name. |
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Tony Benn T-Shirt A younger Mr Benn in classic pipe-smoking pose. Includes one of his finest quotes: All war represents a failure of diplomacy |
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Tucker's Law T-Shirt Sadly not yet available on a tea-towel, the wisdom of Malcolm Tucker: If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking... |
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Turn It Up To Eleven T-Shirt Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh... |
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V For Vendetta T-Shirt But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila... |
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Victor Hugo "Idea" Quote T-Shirt On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées - Victor Hugo; frequently paraphrased as No army can stop an idea whose time has... |
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Voltaire "Atrocities" Quote T-Shirt A quotation taken from Voltaire's 1765 work Questions sur les miracles on the danger on fundamentalist religion: Those who can make you believe absurdities... |
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Voltaire "Right and Wrong" Quote T-Shirt It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, espouses the questioning... |
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Voltaire "Vanquished" Quote T-Shirt Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. Voltaire's most famous of quotes, accompanied by a Christian... |
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We Can't Stop Here, This Is Bat Country T-Shirt Dr. Gonzo: Let's give the boy a lift. Raoul Duke: What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country. In the style of Ralph Steadman, Hunter S Thompson's... |
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When The Government Fears The People T-Shirt A statement that should be burned on the conciousness of every political leader: When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government... |
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William S Burroughs T-Shirt The great American counter-culture novelist quoted on his inherent dislike for the mainstream: How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity |
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William Shakespeare T-Shirt The Bard of Avon, and image of the greatest playwright and writer in the history of the English language, comprised of famous quotes from his plays. |
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You F-ing Plebs T-Shirt Quoted from the reported exchange between Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and the policeman who tried to prevent him from cycling through Downing Street's main... |