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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Flying Inn (1914), Ch. XV: “The Songs of the Car Club”
- Clever Jabs
- Money
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 “The Great Dickens Characters”
- Animals
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1924)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility — in other people.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901)
- Pride
It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908)
- Clever Jabs
Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop.
Agatha Christie1890–1976Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Dr Reilly
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Clever Jabs
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Clever Jabs
Never interrupt me when I’m trying to interrupt you.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Clever Jabs
- Talking
He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Clever Jabs
This Treasury paper, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill1874–1965As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 50, ISBN 1586486389
- Clever Jabs
- Reading
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill1874–1965On Stanley Baldwin, as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 322
- Clever Jabs
- Truth & Lies
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 2 (Harrow).
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Remark on rejoining the Conservatives (1923 or 1924), reported in Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill (1966), pp. 52–53
- Politics
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154
- History