Quotationary

Thursday, December 22, 2005

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to December 22. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’

Winston ChurchillSpeech to the House of Commons · 1940

In 2006 this day opens on Oscar Wilde.

Arrow keys turn the day. S keeps the line. Slash focuses search.