Blunders Quote by E. C. Bentley Download Open image “George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.” — E. C. Bentley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blunders Grotesque Ought Wonder
“there wasn't a damned thing I could say without coming off like a mega-bitch. And it wasn't even nine o'clock. I wanted to put… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey was going… — Matt Francis Copy Share Image
George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which had been both statesmanlike and in… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people and mounds… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He could have told George a writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Lee wrote, “[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“There was even a small groundswell of sympathy for George, confined mainly among those who’d had no personal contact with him.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I know, if anyone does - all research workers know - how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
“Sir Christopher Wren Said, "I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St. Paul's.” — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image