“I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.”

— William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

Robert Andrews, Famous Lines: a Columbia dictionary of familiar quotations (1997), which cites a quotation in the London Observer, 30 October 1960
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