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  • #1
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #2
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #3
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #4
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  • #5
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man

  • #6
    Michael   Dobbs
    “Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.”
    Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

  • #7
    Michael   Dobbs
    “His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.”
    Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

  • #8
    Michael   Dobbs
    “You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.”
    Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

  • #9
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #10
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #11
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #15
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #18
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #21
    Ulysses S. Grant
    “I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.”
    Ulysses S. Grant

  • #22
    Ulysses S. Grant
    “But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
    Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes

  • #23
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #24
    Toby Frost
    “Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.”
    Toby Frost, Wrath of the Lemming Men

  • #25
    Toby Frost
    “People get the wrong idea. I blame science-fiction writers, personally. It annoys me how they confuse the whole robot issue. I tell you, if I met that Asimov bloke, I’d harm him, or at least through inaction allow him to come to harm.”
    Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

  • #26
    Toby Frost
    “Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.”
    Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

  • #27
    Toby Frost
    “You’ll slip up, just like everyone else who tries to mess with the British Empire. They all get it wrong somehow – forget some detail, make some tiny error, invade Russia – and then it’s all downhill from there.”
    Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith
    tags: humour

  • #28
    “Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.”
    Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

  • #29
    Michael Shaara
    “There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”
    Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

  • #30
    Michael Shaara
    “Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.”
    Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels



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