The Twelve Quotes of Nottsmas
A Quiz for Christmas – Who Said/Wrote It?
Can you match each quote to a former Notts resident?
The following quotes have come from, in no particular order, Graham Greene, Stanley Middleton, Helen Cresswell, Robert Harris, Stella Rimington, Donald Wolfit, Lord Byron, D H Lawrence, William Booth, J M Barrie, Dorothy Whipple and Alan Sillitoe, but who said/wrote what?
The Quotes:
“Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.”
“The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.”
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.”
“Power brings a man luxuries but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
“Hitch your wagon to a star or you will just stay where you are.”
“James Bond has about as much to do with the intelligence profession as Billy Bunter has to do with public schools.”
“What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentration upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive.”
“Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.”
“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”
“Shyness in the young may be charming to look at but is painful to the one who suffers it.”
Answers will be revealed on Boxing Day.
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