Nigel Rees Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
June 5, 1944

Nigel Rees is an English writer and broadcaster, best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game Quote... Unquote (since 1976) and as the author of more than fifty books – mostly works of reference on language, and humour in language.

Also known as Broadcaster

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Nigel Rees
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

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- Age
- Record
- Broadcast

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

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- Words
- Deeds
- Construction
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

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- People
- Want
- Say
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

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- School
- Words
- Shy
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.

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- Use
- Laws
- Quotations
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

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- Good
- Democracy
- Share
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

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- Politics
- Look
- Doctor

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Nigel Rees
- Job
- Purpose
- Quotations