
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)
2017, My Response (February)
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)
“They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour.”
Source: From the documentary Robert Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, 1994
Context: Responding to a journalist while attending the unveiling of a statue of Sir Keith Holyoake.
Essays and reviews, Clive James On Television (1991)
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
Marcelle Marquet, Marquet, Fernand Hazan Editions, Paris 1955, p. 3; as quoted in 'Appendix – Marquet Speaks on his Art' in "Albert Marquet and the Fauve movement, 1898-1908", Norris Judd, published 1976, - translation Norris Judd - Thesis (A.B.)--Sweet Briar College, p. 116
“Conrad calling me again—that was enough to make me forget how to breathe.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
Explaining the benefits of disinformation. Quoted in "KGB" - Page 142 - by Brian Freemantle - Social Science - 1982.
“The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists.”
According to research, it has been attributed to Churchill since the 21st century. A similar variation has been attributed to Huey Long a year after he expired, but it’s unclear if he said it either. Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/ Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636 Variants: The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists. The Swiss author François Bondy attributed a similar quote to Ignazio Silone: This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: "The Fascism of tomorrow will never say 'I am Fascism.' It will say: 'I am anti-Fascism.'" Alternatively quoted as: When I met him in Geneva on the day of his scheduled return home after the long exile in Switzerland, Silone said abruptly: "If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'" Source: François Bondy (1976), "European Notebook", Encounter, vol. 47, p. 51. Source: François Bondy (1979), "Ignazio Silone: In Memoriam", The Washington Quarterly, vol. 2, issue 2.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/
Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636
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