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- The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, June 10, 1941
- So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in November 1942
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- The postman always rings twice.
- James M. Cain (1892 - 1977), Book title
- Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto Von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), remark, Aug. 11, 1867
- When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
- John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)
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