Alec Quotes
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More Alec Quotes
I knew when Sir Alec Guinness endorsed my campaign that the force was with us.
Martin Bell— 1997 Victory speech on winning the Tatton constituency. In The Oxford Mail, 2 May.
Why do they call me David 'Del Boy'Jason? You never hear anyone talking about Alec 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'Guinness.
— On his ongoing association with his character in Only Fools and Horses. Quoted in Stafford Hildred and Tim Ewbank Arise Sir David Jason (2003).
"People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty, though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
— Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106
"People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty , though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
— Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106
