“Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.”
" Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/12/02/do0202.xml", Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004, p. 26.
On being sacked from the Tory front bench.
2000s, 2004
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British politician, historian and journalist 1964Related quotes
born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage — and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
The quote "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Researchold/Ready-Reference/JFK-Miscellaneous-Information/Grave-Inscription.aspx One can see it inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
1961, Inaugural Address
“An open foe I much prefer
To a dear friend that scratches.”
Volume I., 5. — "Le Chien et le Chat".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 74.
Fables (1802)
Stanza 8
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Isabella Linton to Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. X).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
(1st February 1823) The Cadets. An Indian Sketch
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
