The Dallas Morning News staff (July 28, 1986) "People", The Dallas Morning News, p. 2A.
“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!”
Attributed to Bevin in the Spectator, 20 April 1951.
Bevin's definition of his foreign policy. Variously quoted as "to be able to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn please!".
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British labour leader, politician, and statesman 1881–1951Related quotes
Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation.
Shouted to his Panzertroops as they were passing him, indicating that they should go as far as they could; as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 83
Barry, John D.. " "Bible Study Anyhwhere http://www.biblestudymagazine.com", Bible Study Magazine, Mar-Apr 2009, pg. 12.
Attributed in Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
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Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
Context: Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
“I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham.”
As quoted in Oh My Posh! Victoria Beckham's 10 Funniest Quotes http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20360923_20769964,00.html#20769981, People (magazine)
Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)