Quote #14

If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out!

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  1. My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
  2. Not while I'm alive he ain't.
  3. They say that Gladstone was at the Treasury from 1860 to 1930. I intend to be Minister of Labour from 1940 to 1990!
  4. We have got to have this thing over here whatever it costs. We've got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it.
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