All Quotes
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.Coco Chanel
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
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, Radio speech, 1941
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.Samuel Butler
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946