Arthur Wimperis quotes

“I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.”
-- Arthur Wimperis

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“Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.”
-- Arthur Wimperis

Source : "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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“Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.”
-- Arthur Wimperis

Source : "Fictional character: Lady Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”

“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.”

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.”

“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.”