Quotations
- "Maybe I was brave, I don't know. At the time I was just doing the job, I didn't have time for other thoughts."—Private Johnson Beharry.
- "You're very special ... It's been rather a long time since I've awarded one of these."— Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, when awarding Private Beharry his VC.
- "I was overshadowed today by Private Beharry, and quite rightly so – it was an honour to stand alongside him"—General Sir Mike Jackson, who was being invested by the Queen on the same day that Private Beharry received his VC. Jackson was there to receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; by protocol, the Victoria Cross is always the first award presented at any investiture.
- "Some days you the bug, some days you the windshield"—Private Johnson Beharry, VC.
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)