Poems List

In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable. of Lord Montgomery

Edward Marsh Ambrosia and Small Beer (1964) ch. 5

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

speech at Westminster Hall, 30 November 1954

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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

speech at White House, 26 June 1954

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This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Ernest Gowers Plain Words (1948) ‘Troubles with Prepositions’

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Naval tradition?. Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash.

often quoted as ‘rum, sodomy, and the lash’, as in Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968)

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

‘iron curtain’ previously had been applied by others to the Soviet Union or her sphere of influence, e.g. Ethel Snowden Through Bolshevik Russia (1920), Dr Goebbels Das Reich (25 February 1945), and by Churchill himself in a cable to President Truman (4 June 1945)

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Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

radio broadcast, 21 March 1943

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

speech at Harvard, 6 September 1943, in Onwards to Victory (1944)

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