“There is still time to go back to Brussels and get a better deal.”
Priti Patel (1972) British politician
Patel comments on no-deal Brexit in Ireland criticised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46488479 (7 December 2018) <br class="br">2018
Source: movie The Iron Lady
“There is still time to go back to Brussels and get a better deal.”
Priti Patel (1972) British politician
Patel comments on no-deal Brexit in Ireland criticised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46488479 (7 December 2018) <br class="br">2018
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Aamir Khan (1965) Indian film actor, director, and producer of Hindi Cinema
On Salman Khan, 10 September, 2011. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Salman-is-number-one-Aamir-Khan/Article1-743829.aspx.
“Great times call for great men.”
Jaroslav Hašek book The Good Soldier Švejk
Preface
The Good Soldier Švejk (1921)
Context: Great times call for great men. There are unknown heroes who are modest, with none of the historical glamour of a Napoleon. If you analysed their character you would find that it eclipsed even the glory of Alexander the Great. Today you can meet in the streets of Prague a shabbily dressed man who is not even himself aware of his significance in the history of the great new era. He goes modestly on his way, without bothering anyone. Nor is he bothered by journalists asking for an interview. If you asked him his name he would answer you simply and unassumingly: 'I am Švejk….
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Letter to Queen Victoria (5 December 1861), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 554.
1860s
“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Letter of 1883, quoted in The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg (1962) by Frank Laurence Lucas, p. 34.
“Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”
Act V, scene 2, 34, line 873.
Eunuchus