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Claud Cockburn Quotes

1904–1981 England

Francis Claud Cockburn (April 12 1904 – December 15 1981) was an influential left-wing English journalist; also a novelist, short-story writer and autobiographer. His many pseudonyms include Frank Pitcairn and James Helvick.

England
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There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".

A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

He [Brendan Bracken] had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Claud Cockburn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.