The following Famous Last Words are mostly culled from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. * Mahatma Gandhi – Hey Ram * Cecil John Rhodes (British colonial administrator) – So little done, so much to do * Mohammed – O’Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come. * Jane Austen (English writer, when asked what she […]
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. – Winston Churchill quoted in Churchill’s Secret War by Madhushree Mukerjee, p.78 Folks, we’re halfway through Mukerjee’s book. And all we can say is that among all the sick f*cks in the world, the British are the sickest for what they did to […]
My general line for those both at home and around the world who think the U.S. is in decline is that history’s dustbins are filled with countries that underestimated the resilience of the United States. – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, New York Times, 1/9/2011, P.6
Men are so stupid in England. They only think of the face. The French, who are a nation of lovers, know how much more important the figure is. – Somerset Maugham in Of Human Bondage, p.,135 The above quote reminds us of an oft-repeated comment those stupid college f*cks in India used to repeat ad […]
I suppose no one ever has faith enough. – Philip Carey, in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. p.55 Despite bombarding God with prayers, the Almighty fails to fix young Philip’s clubfoot leaving him very disappointed. The sentence is a bitter, sarcastic indictment against God, against the doctrinaire belief that we must keep faith, against believing […]
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. – George Bernard Shaw, in The Philanderer act 2 (1893) cited in Yale Book of Quotations, p.702 George Bernard Shaw wrote/said a lot of cute things in a long life. The above is one of […]