Events, dear boy, events.

 

Events, dear boy, events.
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Response to a journalist when asked what is most likely to blow governments off course.
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The quote is also given as "Events, my dear boy, events", with the word "my", but it may never have been uttered at all.
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Knowles, Elizabeth M. (2006). What they didn't say: a book of misquotations. Oxford University Press. pp. vi, 33. 

 

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