“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
In "Painting as a Pastime", first published in the Strand Magazine in two parts (December 1921/January 1922), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 456 ISBN 1586486381
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Act 6, sc. 6
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“I feel so sorry for those poor men sitting up there all day. They must be so cold.”
Quoted in Alec Guinness, Journals, February 1988. [Guinness: " John's grasp of public events was always rather tenuous. His heart however, was in the right place. [This remark] - he was pointing to the barrage balloons tethered over London."]
Interview with V magazine, quoted in "A supermodel life", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 November 2008) http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/a-supermodel-life-20090403-9o99.html
Source: (October 15, 1953) as quoted by Johanna Fantova in Conversations with Einstein https://ysfine.com/einstein/fantova/fantova.html
“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
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