Alec Douglas-Home quotes
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“For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.”
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“There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.”
-- Alec Douglas-HomeSource : 1964 Speech, Jan.
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“To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.”
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“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.”
-- Alec Douglas-HomeSource : Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
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“"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"”
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“...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization”
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“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”
-- Alec Douglas-HomeSource : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.
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“A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.”
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“The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.”
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“Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.”
-- Alec Douglas-Home
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