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Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.
— Melvyn Bragg
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
— Savielly Tartakower
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
— Melvyn Bragg
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
— Melvyn Bragg
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right
— Melvyn Bragg
I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.
— Marie Dressler
Good fortune then!To make me blest or cursed'st among men. — William Shakespeare
To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.
— Melvyn Bragg
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
— James Garner
Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [ ... ]
— C.S. Lewis
When you fight corruption, it fights back.
— Nuhu Ribadu
If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them - if they are above my station, I must endeavour to conceal them.
— Jane Austen
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.
— Philip Roth
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.
— Melvyn Bragg
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
— Bruce Springsteen