Top 21 Beaverbrook Quotes
#1. He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse.
Sinclair Lewis
#2. I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
Evelyn Waugh
#3. Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
Pankaj Mishra
#4. Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
Beverley Baxter
#5. I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.
Chris Evert
#6. Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.
Lora Leigh
#7. Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#9. Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#10. What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#11. You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.
Joe Biden
#13. On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#15. Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#17. Biden said that in Syria the US had found that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers.
Patrick Cockburn
#18. My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
Nikki Reed
