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A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. - [Animals] A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - [Lies] A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - [Optimism : Pessimism] A sheep in sheep's clothing. - about Clement Atlee [Deceit] All comes out even at the end of the day. - quoted by, in a speech at the Highbury Athenoeum [Day] Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - [Wisdom] Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. - on rejoining the Conservatives 20 years after leaving the Liberals [Revenge] At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . - [Democracy] Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - [Courage] From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - in a speech at Westminister College, Fulton, Missouri [Russia] Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - in a radio broadcast [Tools] He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - [Character] I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - in a radio broadcast [Russia] If you are going through hell, keep going. - [Effort] If you're going through hell, keep going. - [Hell] It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. - in the British House of Commons [Slavery] Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - [Truth] My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - [Matrimony] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - in a speech in the House of Commons on the Battle of Britain [Thanks] Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. - [Violence] Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - [Solitude] The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. - [Appeasement] The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. - [History] To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. - [Work] When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - [Manners] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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