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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
