8 Nigel Rees Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nigel Rees

British Author

Born: Jun 5, 1944

Euphemism Job Wish Words Work You

Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal. Nigel Rees

Work Job Other Does End Process Euphemism Workplace Descriptions Peak

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation. Nigel Rees

Saying Mind Job Wish Lost Own Out Find Someone Purpose Involves Came Lingers Up Dictionaries Trying Conventional Quotation Quotations Cannot Which Use Who Searching

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? Nigel Rees

Only Come How Commission Monopolies

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody. Nigel Rees

Good Democracy Too Share Just Anybody

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour. Nigel Rees

You Class Words School Say Never School Plays Armour Terribly Sort Said Got Getting Anything Then Started Shy Plays

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway. Nigel Rees

Rain Sometimes Field Rugby Absolutely Said Pray Pray For His Chief Report Contribution Did Anyway Used Games Presence Played

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. Nigel Rees

Work You College Could New Got Oxford Ethos

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words. Nigel Rees

Positive You Construction Words Wish Put Your Deeds

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