That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and shortly afterwards brought me a fish that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years. The breadcrumb armour-plating of the...
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W. G. Sebold
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying...
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Bill Bryson
First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say 'Look at the green on the high'; for that's how they talk -- in...
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Aleister Crowley
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
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Winston S. Churchill
More Quotes By Clement Attlee
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
