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  • I am now in my eighty-fourth year and that is approaching the moment when I must bring out my Late Night Final.

    -Baron
    c.1963  Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.13.

  • My Indecision Is Final.

    -Jake Eberts
       Title of his book on Goldcrest Films.

  • We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

    - Peter Jackson
      Ruling to uphold the Supreme Court as the bench of last appeal, 9 Feb.

  • When the final curtain comes down, it's time to get off the stage.

    -John Major
      Outside10 Downing Street on 2 May, leaving office as Prime Minister and announcing that he would resign as Party Leader. In The Guardian, 3 May.

  • Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket groundthat, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.

    - C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
      Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Is that your final answer?

    - Chris Tarrant
    Catchphrase on the television show WhoWantsTo BeA Millionaire?.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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