I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman. Votes: 15
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman." Votes: 13
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. Votes: 10
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. Votes: 7
I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing. Votes: 6
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity. Votes: 4
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like. Votes: 3
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. Votes: 3
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act. Votes: 2
If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by"•though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed. Votes: 0
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong Votes: 0
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place. Votes: 0
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. Votes: 0