Source: Enough Rope
“An open foe I much prefer
To a dear friend that scratches.”
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766–1834) French dramatist
Volume I., 5. — "Le Chien et le Chat".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 74.
Fables (1802)
“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,<br>L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin. <br class="br">St. 5 <br class="br"> Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
“If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.”
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Quote of Turner, c. 1842-43; as cited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1879) The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A. p. 296
his reply after the prominent English marine painter Clarkson Stanfield had complained, that Turner in his painting 'Peace - Burial at Sea' - he painted after the burial of his artist-friend David Wilkie - had painted the sails in the steamer as black as possible
1821 - 1851
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 218
“Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.”
George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s
“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”
Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937) British politician
1927. Quoted in Sir Charles Petrie, The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II (Cassell, 1940), p. 321.
1920s
“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.”
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) British writer
Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 2, ch. 6.
“If you scratch a Conservative, you find a Fascist.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the London Young Liberal Federation in the National Liberal Club (5 January 1925), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 109
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons
