“I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;
I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.”
"Executive" line 1, from A Nip in the Air (1974).
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English poet, writer and broadcaster 1906–1984Related quotes
“I am a soldier. I get orders. I execute them.”
To Raoul Nordling
The Race to Liberate Paris, warfarehistorynetwork.com https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/the-race-to-liberate-paris/
Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Context: Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.
Peaceable v. Read and others (1801), 1 East. 573.
As cited in Country of My Skull, Antjie Krog, Random House, p. 270
“Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.”
To one of his executioners, whom he noticed weeping, as quoted in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1844) by WIlliam Smith, p. 73.