Aneurin Bevan Quotes - Page 3

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.