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31/10/2016 | Quote/Unquote |
Pictures of 20 famous people - past and present - appear in the 20 pictures. Alongside each picture is a well-known quotation taken from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations attributed to one of the other 19 people. For each picture identify: a) the name of the person depicted b) the quotation correctly belonging to that person (using the letter tagged to each quotation) |
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“Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of the devil. That means I can definitely identify with her.”
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B. |
“History is more or less bunk”
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3. |
C. |
“A man has every season, while a woman only has the right to spring.”
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D. |
“To betray you must at first belong.”
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E. |
“Maybe the most you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”
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6. |
F. |
“I want to be alone.”
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7. |
G. |
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.”
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H. |
“The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as a Madonna or Mary Magdalene”
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9. |
I. |
“It’s television you see. If you’re not on the thing every week the public think you are either dead or deported.”
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10. |
J. |
“That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record”
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11. |
K. |
“Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in the country.”
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12. |
L. |
“The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.”
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13. |
M. |
“I never cared for fashion much. Amusing little seams and witty little pleats. It was the girls I liked.”
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N. |
“An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Attlee got out”
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15. |
O. |
“For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.”
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P. |
“I am a simple man and I use simple materials.”
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17. |
Q. |
“Natural selection has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
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18. |
R. |
(of the harpsichord) “Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.”
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19. |
S. |
“Money couldn’t buy friends but you get a better class of enemy.”
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20. |
T. |
“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you just rattle your jewellery.”
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