“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
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British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy … 1892–1973Related quotes
“Any half-awake materialist well knows — that which you hold holds you.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
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A young Paul Scholes when asked about his career ambitions upon signing with United as a teenager
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Context: Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
“Half my advertising is wasted but I do not know which half.”
Lord Leverhulme, as cited in: John Sherman Wright, John E. Mertes (1974), Advertising's role in society, p. 78
This quote has also been attributed to John Wanamaker and George Washington Hill
Keynote address, Democratic National Convention (13 July 1992). (see External links)
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)