George Brown
Title: Lord George Brown
Full Name: George Alfred Brown
Birthdate: September 2, 1914
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: June 2, 1985
Occupation: Author and Politician
Profile: UK Foreign Secretary (1966–1968). Best known for
In My Way: The Political Memoirs of Lord George-Brown.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_George_Brown
Number of Quotes: 11
... a watershed in my own life.
Referring to his resignation from the Wilson government in 1968, which he called a watershed in my own life
.
Dean Rusk (honest to the last cog).
A reflection on the U.S. Secretary of State, from his memoirs.
Fancy a dance, dear.
According to a famous (though likely apocryphal) story, Brown — while
heavily intoxicated at a reception in South America—approached a tall figure in scarlet robes and asked this, only to be told: I'm sorry sir, there are
three reasons why I can't – you are blind drunk, this is not a waltz but the Peruvian national anthem, and I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima.
George Brown drunk is a better man than the Prime Minister sober.
This was not a self-quotation but a line from The Times, offered as a wry observation on his character.
Harry, you're the best bloody Englishman east of Suez.
Brown's
reported compliment to Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
I'm given to being slightly uncontrolled.
A self-deprecating admission from Brown's political memoirs, In My Way.
It's not your bloody embassy, it's mine.
His blunt response to an ambassador who greeted him with Welcome to my embassy.
Kosygin, despite the almost gloomy look which he habitually wears, does in fact have a sense of humour, but the side of him that showed most was the
suspicious side. He was always a total Communist Party official, and I think always suspicious not so much of other people as of what people in his own
country might think of his gullibility if he really set out to indulge in the kind of discussion which might lead to a change of view. He was very much
afraid of his own inadequacies if he went outside his brief. He was not, I would say, a big man, but a more than adequately tough party official.
On Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, from In My Way.
Many Members of Parliament drink and womanize. Now, I've never womanized.
A variation on his more famous quip about drinking and womanising.
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
His best-known quotation, reportedly made to The Observer in 1974, acknowledging his own well-documented struggles with alcohol.
While you have all been wining and dining here tonight, who has been defending Europe? I'll tell you who — the British army. And
where, you may ask, are the soldiers of the Belgian army tonight? I'll tell you where they are. They're in the brothels of Brussels!
A characteristically undiplomatic outburst at a banquet hosted by the Belgian government.
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