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“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On Ramsay MacDonald. This is often taken as referring to Clement Attlee, but Scottish historian D. W. Brogan is cited in Safire’s Political Dictionary (2008), William Safire, Oxford University Press US, p. 352 ISBN 0195343344 as follows: ‘Sir Winston Churchill never said of Clement Attlee that he was a sheep in sheep’s clothing. I have this on the excellent authority of Sir Winston himself. The phrase was totally inapplicable to Mr. Attlee. It was applicable, and applied, to J. Ramsay MacDonald, a very different kind of Labour leader.’
Early career years (1898–1929)
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) British playwright, poet and artist
Edmund Gosse, quoted in Ferris Greenslet Under the Bridge: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943) p. 104.
Sometimes misattributed to Yeats.
Criticism
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) Poet, author, and critic
Of T. Sturge Moore, c. 1906
Quoted in Ferris Greenslet, Under the Bridge, ch.12.
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Morrison v. Olsen, 487 U.S. 654, 699 (1988) (dissenting).
1980s
“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Set theory in sheep's clothing.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Referring to Second-order logic, in Philosophy of Logic (1970)
1970s