Quotable Quotes

• "I suppose that's what we've been fighting for". This is said to have been Winston Churchill's extraordinarily magnaminous reaction upon learning of his defeat in the 1945 General Election. 

 

• "I've broken my leg in two places". "Well, make sure you dont go back to them again". Tommy Cooper

 

• "What does it profit a man if he has the greatest brain in the world if at the same time he has the memory of a gnat?" Barnaby Capel-Dunn

 

• "A simple but false idea will always prevail over a complex but true one". Quoted by Odon Vallet in the French current affairs programme C'est dans l"air