Bernard Levin Quotes

#1. Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

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#2. I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

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#3. It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

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#4. The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

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#5. Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

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#6. The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

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#7. Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

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#8. The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

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#9. Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

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#10. In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

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#11. Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

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#12. No amount of manifest absurdity ... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

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#13. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

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