I entertained myself for a while at this site. I'm easily entertained. Obviously.
A couple of examples...
Churchill on France:
You know, I'd rather have my bottom impaled on a giant cactus than to have to speak to that jumped-up Frenchman. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion." -Overheard at the first, and last, party thrown by DeGaulle for Englishmen.
"Going to war without France is like going hunting without your accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."
"Never in the field of human conflict have so many cheese-eating surrender monkeys been owed so little by so many."
Churchill on Oscar Wilde:
"Gentlemen, I have grave news. I have caught the gay from Mr. Wilde, and I have been dreaming of you all night."
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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There is one good thing that I can say about DeGaulle, and it calls to mind an old saying: absence makes the heart grow fonder of his continued absence! -- W. S. Churchill, while conversing with G. S. Patton about Russians...
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