Duff Cooper Quotes

• I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.

  Duff Cooper

  Christian, Country, Men

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Silly, Wine

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• One can make a joke, but one can't be one.

  Duff Cooper

  Jokes

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• For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

  Duff Cooper

  Two, People, Catholic

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Perspective

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• Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

  Duff Cooper

  Silly, Wine, Foolish

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

  Duff Cooper

  Wine, Romance, Literature

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Counselor

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