Quotations 1

Achei entre centenas de livros que tenho nas minhas estantes, um Dictionary of Quotations, (publicado pela Chambers e editado por Nigel Rees, do qual passo a transcrever, sem tradução, algumas citações que me pareceram curiosas. Umas são surpreendentes; outras, ferinas. Há de tudo um pouco: 

1.     Anonymous:

Don’t tell my mother I’m in politics – she thinks I play the piano in a whorehouse.

2.     Anonymous:

I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.

3.     Anonymous:

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the complete opposite.

4.     Anonymous:

Most people enjoy the sight of their handwriting as they enjoy the smell of ther own farts.

5.     Austin, Warren R. (US diplomat):

Jews and Arabs should settle their differences like good Christians.

6.     Barrie, J. M. (British playwright):

I know I’m not clever but I’m always right.

7.     ‘Beachcomber’ (J. B. Morton - British humorist)

Justice must not not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

8.     Beecham, Sir Thomas (British orchestral conductor, to a man called ‘Ball’):

Ball...how very singular.

9.     Bell, H. E. (British University administrator):

Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children.

10.            Bentley, Nicolas (British cartoonist and writer, of Hery Campbell Bannerman):

He is remembered chiefly as the man about whom all is forgotten.