Edgar Smith quotes

Edgar Smith quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.”
-- Edgar Smith

#Determination Quotes #Tea Quotes #Battle Quotes

“In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.”
“There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.”
“Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.”

Source : Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”
“To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”
“Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.”
“Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.”

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