Nigel Rees
Nigel Rees
Nigel Reesis an English writer and broadcaster, best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game Quote... Unquoteand as the author of more than fifty books – mostly works of reference on language, and humour in language...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 June 1944
democracy share
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
taken half size
Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
father taken mean
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.
laughter monopoly
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?