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- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in March 1946
- Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1941
- One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977)
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Flying Inn (1914)
- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Noam Chomsky (1928 - ), in a television interview
- All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
- All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977), in My Autobiography (1964)
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
- Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
- Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
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