Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I did not see Julius Caesar's return to Rome, but I am sure that in comparison it looked like a deuce of spades.”
Comment by Leahy on Douglas MacArthur's return to the United States after being relieved of command in Korea by President Harry S. Truman, in a 20 April 1951 letter to MacArthur's nephew Douglas MacArthur II. As quoted by Henry H. Adams in Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), p. 342
1950s
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Menander
(-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in Menander: The Principal Fragments (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson.
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Richard Long
(1945) artist
An interview with Richard Long.Roger Cork in 'Richard Long:walking in Circles'. Exh:cat Soutn Bank Centre, London 1991
1990s
Jack Vance
(1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Section 6 (p. 186)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
Enoch Powell
(1912–1998) British politician
Alluding to Virgil's report of the Sybil's prophesy, from the Aeneid, Book 6, line 87: "Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno." This is one of the concluding lines that gave the speech its common title.
The 'Rivers of Blood' speech
§ 217
Source: Philosophical Investigations (1953)