Ethel Lina White Quotes

Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins , on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes , was based. Wikipedia

✵ 1876 – 13. August 1944

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Ethel Lina White Quotes

“Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”

Ethel Lina White book The Wheel Spins

The Wheel Spins (1932), p 270.
A variation of this quote also appears in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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