“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
You Asked Me To, from Honky Tonk Heroes, written with Billy Joe Shaver (1973).
Song lyrics
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Gianfranco Fini (1952) Italian politician
Fini: un gay non puo' fare il maestro http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1998/aprile/09/Fini_gay_non_puo_fare_co_0_9804094008.shtml, Il Corriere della Sera, 9 April 1998.
“You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Source: City of Glass
“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
As quoted by Valerie Lawson, in an interview: "The Mystic Life of P.L. Travers" (7 May 2003) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/ark/stories/s844311.htm