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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)

Questions with Answers

Format index

 

1.

A.

“Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of the devil.  That means I can definitely identify with her.”

 

2.

B.

“History is more or less bunk”

 

3.

C.

“A man has every season, while a woman only has the right to spring.

 

4.

D.

“To betray you must at first belong.”

 

5.

E.

“Maybe the most you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”

 

6.

F.

“I want to be alone.”

 

7.

G.

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.

 

8.

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

 

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.”

 

10.

J.

“That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record”

 

11.

K.

“Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in the country.”

 

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.”

 

13.

M.

“I never cared for fashion much.  Amusing little seams and witty little pleats.  It was the girls I liked.

 

14.

N.

An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Attlee got out

 

15.

O.

“For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.”

 

16.

P.

“I am a simple man and I use simple materials.”

 

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.”

 

18.

R.

(of the harpsichord)

“Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.”

 

19.

S.

“Money couldn’t buy friends but you get a better class of enemy.

 

20.

T.

“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?  All the rest of you, if you just rattle your jewellery.”