The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother.
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Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.
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We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)
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I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'
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The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because i...
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This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes2 accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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I don't sleep much. I never had to.
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Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
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