“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Same Damn Tune
Official Mix tapes, Dedication 4 (2012)
“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals
Dorothy Hammerstein, irritated at a woman who neglected her husband's contribution to Showboat
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“Begging your pardon, sir…. One population can't make peace with another by force.”
Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch
Source: Son of a Witch
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
The River,' corrected the Rat.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) German composer and pianist
As quoted (prefaced by the qualification, "There is a story that one evening, on leaving, Brahms said...") in One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters: Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=irUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12 (1917), edited by Henry T. Finck, p. XII <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: If there is any one here tonight whom I have not offended, I apologize!
“I have a glove into which I can put your whole city of Paris.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
Context: Allegedly told to Francis I of France. The glove, gant in French, is a reference to the city of Ghent (Gandes in French), where Charles was born.