My divorce will be a friendly one.—Miss Bette Davis, I am going to a place where John Barley-Corn can't get at me.—Mr. Benny Lynch.
Am I satisfied with the film adaptation of "Pygmalion?" I'm delighted. I wrote it myself.—Mr. Bernard Shaw.
I believe that the proportion of charlatans among women is much smaller than among men.—Lord Horder.
"his is nominally a Christian country, but how ashamed we are of our Christianity.—Lady Cynthia Colville, What sort of a reception would Christ get from the Anglican Church if He returned here today?—The Bishop of Southampton.
Too many grown-up Englishmen seem' to suffer from the schoolboy instinct to keep on good terms with the bully.—Mr. Liddell Hart.
In England middle-age is in the saddle. It holds the high offices; it has the money; it has the best time.—Mr. R. H. Bruce Lockhart.
Youth is a kind of delirium which can only be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment—Mr, Logan Pearsall Smith, No modern Christian who sat down to give a brief resume of his faith would produce anything like the Thirty-nine—Articles—The Dean of St. Paul's; There is no reason—at least I know of tone—why the universe should be such as to be readily comprehensible to a twentieth century.
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