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Nancy Wake
3 quotes
“I would just look over to the officer, flutter my eyelashes and say ‘Do you want to search moi?’ and they would laugh flirtatiously, ‘No Mademoiselle, you carry on’.”
Nancy Wake (1912–2011) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Peter FitzSimons, Nancy Wake (2001), ch. 11
“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
Nancy Wake (1912–2011) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in David Fickling, "A belated salute for war heroine", The Guardian (23 February 2004)
“In my opinion, the only good German was a dead German, and the deader, the better. I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.”
Nancy Wake (1912–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Kim Willsher, "Farewell to Nancy Wake, the mouse who ran rings around the Nazis", The Guardian (9 August 2011)