Nigel Rees Quotes

#1. People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

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#2. I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

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#3. How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

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#4. Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

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#5. I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.

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#6. It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

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#7. Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

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#8. I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

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#9. My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

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#10. You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

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#11. Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

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#12. I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

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#13. I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

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#14. Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

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