John Hay Beith quotes
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“War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.”
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“Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.”
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“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”
-- John Hay Beith
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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“Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.”
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Source : "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.
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“It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.”
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