Best Chamberlain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.”

Conquest Spiders Palaces Owl Chamberlain

“It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.”

Ifs Government Blind Coward Traitor Chamberlain Halifax

Author:Enoch Powell

“Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?”

Want Doe President Fool Bigger Legacy Chamberlain

Author:Tom Gross

“I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.”

Lasts Lines Basketball Chamberlain

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”

Politician Conviction Loyal Austen Chamberlain

Author:Margot Asquith

“My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.”

Artist Father Parent Makeup Los Angeles New Yorkers Makeup Artist Chamberlain

Author:Michele Lee

“Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.”

War Peace Sound Liberation Chamberlain Mrs Thatcher Grenada

Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.”

Years Looks May War Today Next Peace Results Five Conflict Inevitable Five Years Temporary Appeasement Postponement Chamberlain

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.”

Events Warm Spain Chamberlain

Author:Billy Wilder

“My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.”

Three Brown Chamberlain

Author:Dick Schaap

“When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.”

Source: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.”

Men History Working Man Chamberlain

Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.”

Ifs World Today Black Color Red Green Democratic Notion Conservative Rejects Regimes Dictatorship Disagreeable Mao Watergate Munich Chamberlain

Author:Adam Michnik

“Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.”

Community Deals Basketball Bills Athlete Nba Performers Dominance Rivalry Demeanor Great Athlete Chamberlain

Author:Red Auerbach

“He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'”

World Guy Fun Sports Loss Special Battle Basketball Gentle Giants Terrific Special Places Great Loss Chamberlain

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.”

Organs Monkeys Grinder Chamberlain Halifax

Author:Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

“I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.”

Office Hills Python Monty Chamberlain

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.”

Want Strong Basketball Dominant Being Strong Chamberlain

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.”

Said Basketball Lied Chamberlain

Author:Dennis Rodman

“I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.”

Said War Kids Courses Changed Hero Civil War Chamberlain

Book:The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.”

Moments Middle Basketball Bounds Chamberlain

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.”

Greater Europe Bores Birmingham Chamberlain

Author:Winston Churchill

“The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.”

Way Two Funny Together Team Basketball Trade Scotch Funny Basketball Midget Chamberlain

Author:Gene Shue

“Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.”

Giving Has Beens Wanted History Journey Week Position Europe Thirds Army Germany Stubborn Limbs Could Have Been Nazism Insistence Nazi Germany Munich Chamberlain

Author:William L. Shirer

“I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.”

People Should Said Lying Actors Found Gay Closets Liberated Chamberlain

Author:Alan Cumming

“The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.”

Baseball Famous Baseball Free Throw Chamberlain Designated Hitter

Author:Rick Wise

“Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.”

Political Politics Listening Speech Chamberlain

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.”

Ends Political Politics Affair Foreign Affairs Chamberlain

Author:Winston Churchill

“Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.”

Mind Political Retail Wholesale Chamberlain

Author:David Lloyd George

“Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.”

Nations Leader Blind Threat Climate Hoover Chamberlain

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“If they had been fit, Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would also have made a difference down the left against United.”

Ifs Made Left Differences United Fit Alex Chamberlain

Author:Robbie Savage

“Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.”

People Hard Lord Groups Reader Handful Controllers Assorted Chamberlain

Author:Timothy West

“Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.”

Wells Song Clothes Rose Lovely Slippers Chamberlain

Author:Julie Harris

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