Lord Beaverbrook Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

B.W. Powe

#5. The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#6. Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#7. 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

#8. To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

Elizabeth George

#9. Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#10. 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

#11. I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#13. Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#14. 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

#15. I don't believe in courtship, it's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make an exemption: Just love me now, and I will court you forever.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

#16. Business is the most exciting game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#17. Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#18. And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#19. The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us - it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

Lama Surya Das

#20. Business is more exciting than any game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#21. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#22. A girl could get to hate Doms.

Cherise Sinclair