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Nigel Rees [1944-0] British

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

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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.		101
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.		102
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.		103
You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.	Positive	104
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?		105
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.		106
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.		107
I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.		108
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?		109
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.		110
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.		111

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