Not while I'm alive he ain't.

 

Not while I'm alive he ain't.
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Nigel Rees, "Sayings of the Century" (Unwin Hyman, 1987), p. 233
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Bevin's response to an overheard remark that "Nye is his own worst enemy". Also applied to Herbert Morrison and Emanuel Shinwell.

 

Ernest Bevin

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