Try these

 

Who said or wrote these? Match from the list below the quotes:

1. “Publish and be damned” … a reference to Harriette Wilson’s blackmail threat.

2. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless … peacocks and lilies for instance.

3. One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance.

4. A fully-equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts … and dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer.

5. “Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you” … telegram to Mrs. Sherwood on the new baby.

a) Lloyd George
b) Dorothy Parker
c) Wellington
d) Iris Murdoch
e) Ruskin

2 replies on “Try these”

  1. Shall take a punt at the others after beverage fortification.

    2. Doesn’t look like something a pollie would say so Ruskin
    Therefore or there 4 going with Lloyd George which leave Iris Murdoch and she is best left.🤓

    ……

    JH: No flies on you sir! My fave is n3. 🥳

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