“And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.
Whatever”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Fourth Comings
Marconi 1898, cited in: Alvin K. Benson (2010) Great Lives from History. p. 759
Content of the first wireless signals sent across the Bristol Channel.
“And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.
Whatever”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Fourth Comings
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Source: 2021, November 2021, UN Climate Conference in Scotland, UK
“It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Remarks Intended for Delivery to the Texas Democratic State Committee in the Municipal Auditorium in Austin
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.”
Oderint dum metuant.
Lucius Accius (-170–-84 BC) Roman poet and scholar
From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. (16 BC)
“Let them hate me, so that they will but fear me.”
Oderint, dum metuant.
Caligula (12–41) 3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006), p. 27 London: Quercus Publishing, ISBN 1905204965 , these derive from a statement by Suetonius, included below, in which he states these words were often used by Caligula, but imply that he was quoting the tragedian Accius.
Disputed
“It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book One in 'The Incident at Griboyedov', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist
“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country