Cyril Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
-- Cyril Smith

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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
-- Cyril Smith

#Money #Feet #Desire
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
-- Cyril Smith

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If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.
-- Cyril Smith

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Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
It is. But not as hard as farce.
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

Cyril Smith famous quotes

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