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I may be uninspiring but I'll be damned if I'm alien.
Wake up, England, you have been asleep too long!
The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.
After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
We have to create a better Britain, to bestow more care on the health and well-being of the people, and to ameliorate further the conditions of labour.
It has always been my dream that the two English-speaking nations should some day be united in a great cause, and to-day my dream is realized. Together we are fighting for the greatest cause for which peoples could fight. The Anglo-Saxon race must save civilization.
After a struggle longer and far more terrible than anyone could have foretold, the soil of Britain remains inviolate. Our Navy has everywhere held the seas, and wherever the enemy could be brought to battle it has renewed the glories of Drake and Nelson.
I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.
I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.
Attributed Alleged statement about his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1918)
I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne.
Attributed Philip Ziegler in King Edward VIII: The Official Biography (1990)
They make me look like a stuffed monkey.
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You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.
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Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
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After you've met one hundred and fifty Lord Mayors, they all begin to look the same.
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But, remember, I wish to have the best collection, not just one of the best collections in England.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
Attributed Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959)
Golf always makes me so damned angry.
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It's the shortest one I know.
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What did you do about peeing?
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