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There's less to him than meets the eye.

— Winston Churchill

More from Winston Churchill

  1. There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
  2. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
  3. The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.
  4. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
  5. The price of greatness is responsibility.
  6. The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself…
  7. The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. (attributed to a House of Commons speech of 1951)
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Topics in this quote

  • character
  • appearance
  • judgment
  • substance

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