Aneurin Bevan on Books
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Aneurin Bevan, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Aneurin Bevan, entry #116141: "I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
Attributed to Aneurin Bevan, entry #160335: "It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of …"
3 Quotes by Aneurin Bevan on Books
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
"It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in Britain. Why on earth should he want to prophesy what might result from a Tory Government when history has the record for him? Why read the crystal when he can read the book?"
"A very large part of the population of Wales was English-speaking, and the English-speaking part had a contribution just as big, if not bigger, to make towards Welsh cultural life than the Welsh-speaking part. A great deal of the literature of which Welshmen were proud and a great deal of the poetry for which this generation would be noted had been written in English by Welshmen."