A Murder is Announced (1950)
“At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
Taken from The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, referring to his wife, Cindy McCain. Overheard by three anonymous reporters during his 1992 senate bid. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html <br class="br">Disputed
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act II, scene ii.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
“77. When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.”
LaVyrle Spencer (1943) American writer
Source: Hummingbird
“Women, perhaps, even require a little hypocrisy.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Peut-être veulent-elles [les femmes] un peu d'hypocrisie?
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”
Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer
Source: Drowning Instinct
“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”
Arthur Ransome book Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930
