Famous quotes containing the words spanish, aid and/or committee:
“The French courage proceeds from vanitythe German from phlegmthe Turkish from fanaticism & opiumthe Spanish from pridethe English from coolnessthe Dutch from obstinacythe Russian from insensibilitybut the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“What are we hoping to get out of it, whats it all in aid ofis it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?”
—John Osborne (19291994)
“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)