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There have been a good few quotes used on a number of threads and thought it might be fun for us all to compile on one thread our favourites.
I will start with one of the greatest orators in our history, and a quotation goldmine, Winston Spencer Churchill.
I have taken these from the book: 'The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill' compiled by Dominique Enright (Michael O'Mara Books Ltd). This book is a must for any other fan of Churchill, with these I have just touched the surface.........
I have tried to avoid some of his better known ones.>>>>>>>>>>>
Churchill was irritated when he was asked whether Niagara Falls looked the same as when he first visited: 'Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.'
'Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.'
When asked by Lord Londonderry whether he had read his latest book Churchill replied: 'No, I only read for pleasure or for profit.'
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won'
'Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult'
'Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.'
Tory MP's in the Commons Bar, around 1955, one to the other 'I hear Winston is going, you know - a bit ga-ga', 'Yesh,' rumbled a deep familiar voice from a nearby armchair, 'an' they shay he'sh getting' terribly deaf, as well!'
'When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.'
'The English never draw a line without blurring it.'
'Of course I am an egotist. Where do you get if you aren't?'
'Eating my words has never given me indigestion.'
'Madam, all babies look like me.'
'I can well understand the Honourable Member's wishing to speak on. He needs the practise badly.'
'The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.'
Finally one for Marek: There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess - and there are few errors that they have avoided.'