Winston Churchill - one of the great masters of the Queens English
#1
01-02-2006, 07:59 PM
Winston Churchill - one of the great masters of the Queens English
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
An old proverb there is, and that most true--a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.
Golf is a game who's aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
An old proverb there is, and that most true--a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.
Golf is a game who's aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
#3
01-02-2006, 08:19 PM
Yes, but the outright "Twistyness" of Churchills prose has always fascinated me....
Like Samuel Clemens - he had a penchant for saying a lot with a dearth of verbiage. Leaving the rest of us to figure out just what it was that he truly had to say!
I admire that, though one must question the mind behind it.
Short attention span? You think?
It goes without saying that precisely what he said was exactly what he had in mind.
"SPLAT"
There you go....
Any questions?
Like Samuel Clemens - he had a penchant for saying a lot with a dearth of verbiage. Leaving the rest of us to figure out just what it was that he truly had to say!
I admire that, though one must question the mind behind it.
Short attention span? You think?
It goes without saying that precisely what he said was exactly what he had in mind.
Last edited by Greywolf; 01-02-2006 at 08:26 PM.
#4
01-02-2006, 08:24 PM
Ronald Reagan had some remarkable worlds as well. Anyone that remembers his Challenger disaster speech, or his farewell letter (the final paragraphs brought tears to my eyes the first time I heard it) knows what I mean... 
.....
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Thank you, my friends.
Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Thank you, my friends.
Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan
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01-02-2006, 08:47 PM
Originally Posted by Greywolf
Yes, but the outright "Twistyness" of Churchills prose has always fascinated me....
Like Samuel Clemens - he had a penchant for saying a lot with a dearth of verbiage. Leaving the rest of us to figure out just what it was that he truly had to say!
I admire that, though one must question the mind behind it.
Short attention span? You think?
It goes without saying that precisely what he said was exactly what he had in mind.
"SPLAT"
There you go....
Any questions?
Like Samuel Clemens - he had a penchant for saying a lot with a dearth of verbiage. Leaving the rest of us to figure out just what it was that he truly had to say!
I admire that, though one must question the mind behind it.
Short attention span? You think?
It goes without saying that precisely what he said was exactly what he had in mind.
I think he said exactly what he had in mind?
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i thought i'd pass this along, if you haven'y heard churchills parrot was found a few years ago and still very much alive and cursing hitler.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html
#12
01-03-2006, 08:31 AM
Churchill was at a party, so the story goes, and had been partaking of drink...to excess as he was wont to do, when he was aproached by a dowager who accused him of being drunk. He replied,
"Yes madam, I am. But in the morning I shall be sober while you, however, will still be ugly."
(For one of the world's great diplomats, sometimes he was a wee bit lacking in diplomacy. But never lacking in the famous Churchill dry wit!)
"Yes madam, I am. But in the morning I shall be sober while you, however, will still be ugly."
(For one of the world's great diplomats, sometimes he was a wee bit lacking in diplomacy. But never lacking in the famous Churchill dry wit!)
#13
01-03-2006, 09:07 AM
Originally Posted by TigerDan
(For one of the world's great diplomats, sometimes he was a wee bit lacking in diplomacy. But never lacking in the famous Churchill dry wit!)
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