Response to a journalist when asked what is most likely to blow governments off course.
The quote is also given as "Events, my dear boy, events", with the word "my", but it may never have been uttered at all.
[What they didn't say: a book of misquotations, Knowles, Elizabeth M., Oxford University Press, 2006, vi, 33]
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“Rather dear, those boys.”
Closing words, p. 466.
The Unknown Soldier
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Finnish writer 1920–1992Related quotes
“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
Song: Sonny Boy (de Sylva wrote the words; Lew Brown and Ray Henderson wrote the music; Al Jolson insisted on being credited too)
“Those braying sheep on my TV screen -
Make this boy shout! Make this boy scream!”
Going Underground (1980)
"Just a Smack at Auden" (1937), line 15; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 81.
The Complete Poems
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 50.
“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”