Anton Walbrook famous quotes

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
-- Anton Walbrook

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I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
-- Anton Walbrook

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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.