Integrity is a lofty attitude assumed by someone who is unemployed.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain.
The Blobster
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From personal experience I know the above to be true !
The land of my fathers - my fathers can have it. Dylan Thomas.
I'm actually proud of Wales and being Welsh. I couldn't tell you why though as ones' nationality is but a geographical accident of birth. For instance, there was no prouder Welshman than Lloyd George yet he was born near Manchester. Does that make him English therefore? Certainly not, raged my fanatically Welsh ex-partner when I reminded her about it, he was conceived in Wales!!
Personally I am not particularly nationalistic. For me, be you foreign, black, brown, yellow, of whatever religious persuasion, all that counts is whether or not you are a good person. The rest doesn't matter.
Novelist Evelyn Waugh in Decline and Fall:
We can trace nearly all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
Huh!! Just wait until we play them in Qatar!!
We can trace nearly all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
Huh!! Just wait until we play them in Qatar!!
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
On Fred Astaire's first screen test:
Can't act, can't sing, slightly bald. Can dance a little.
Can't act, can't sing, slightly bald. Can dance a little.
A German singer? I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. Prussian king Frederick the Great.
A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
Faint heart never won fair lady or sold any life insurance.
Churchill before a 1944 speech in Paris:
Be on your guard! I am going to speak in French - a formidable undertaking and one which will put great demands upon your friendship for Great Britain.
Be on your guard! I am going to speak in French - a formidable undertaking and one which will put great demands upon your friendship for Great Britain.
Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine; it's a hundred pricks against one.
Gore Vidal, American playwright:
I'm all for bringing back the birch - but only between consenting adults in private.
I'm all for bringing back the birch - but only between consenting adults in private.
I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.
Noregian explorer Fridtjof Nansen:
The cold of the polar regions was nothing to the chill of an English bedroom.
The cold of the polar regions was nothing to the chill of an English bedroom.
The Blobster
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FRIDJTOF ? Too cold to switch his fridge on then !
Not him. It's rumoured that he shagged Robert Falcon Scott's wife - Nansen was a bit of a ladies's man. He was also a world renowned explorer who specialised in the Arctic regions and a mentor of Roald Amundsen who beat Scott to the South Pole. He actually lent Amundsen his ship Fram for the expedition.
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.