Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook Quotes
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Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
Of Lord Curzon
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
With the publication of his Private Papers in 1952, he [Earl Haig] committed suicide 25 years after his death.
Of Earl Haig
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
To Nicholas Phipps, British actor and screenwriter, who had called himself an efficient hack:
Creative writers are two a penny. Efficient hacks are very rare.Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Churchill on top of the wave has in him the stuff of which tyrants are made.
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
[Lloyd George] did not seem to care which way he travelled providing he was in the driver's seat.
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
On Lord Curzon who had become Viceroy of India at the 'youthful age of thirty-nine':
For all the rest of his life Curzon was influenced by his sudden journey to heaven at the age of thirty-nine, and then by his return seven years later to earth, for the remainder of his mortal existence.Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Of Bonar Law and Churchill:
I have had two masters and one of them betrayed me.Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
I ran the paper [Daily Express] purely for propaganda, and with no other purpose.
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
