Beaverbrook Lord Quotes & Sayings

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me. — Evelyn Waugh

She was trouble with a capital T. He could see it in her eyes. — Nina D'Angelo

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up. — David Cannadine

I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste. — Marvin J. Ashton

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. — Stanley Baldwin

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Business is more exciting than any game. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures. — Raymond Chandler

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

You've never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It's like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you. — Caitlin Moran

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work. — Anastas Mikoyan

He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse. — Sinclair Lewis

I was sitting here staring at the trees in my parents yard and wondering - season after season the trees continue to grow no matter what the weather. I guess they are just grounded and rooted and don't concern themselves with the seasons. When are we going to truly get rooted and grounded so that we continue to grow regardless? — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go. — Cameron Russell

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. — Andrew Jackson

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book. — Terence McKenna

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Business is the most exciting game. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. — Erich Fromm

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook