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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is slothful not to compress your thoughts,” he said.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“The speech set a pattern that he would follow throughout the war, offering a sober appraisal of facts, tempered with reason for optimism. “It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour,” he said. “It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.”
“Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.”
“It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour,” he said. “It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.”
“It was the loss of the books that she grieved above all. . . One keeps remembering some odd little book that one had; one can't list them all, and it is best to forget them now that they are ashes.”
“As long as there was tea, there was England.”
“That's one trouble about the raids. . . People do nothing but make tea and expect you to drink it.”
“Never was there such a contrast of natural splendor and human vileness.”
“If we can't be safe, let us at least be comfortable.”
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