“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”
John Wyndham book The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]
“I'm a hawk— but no kamikaze. And Jim's a dove— but he's not chicken.”
On Jim Prior, Shadow Employment Secretary, in a speech to the Conservative Party Conference (October, 1977).
Tebbit, p. 196.
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