“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
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The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.
BBC broadcast (16 November 1934) on German rearmament, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 566
The 1930s
Cornstalk to Shawnee council after the Battle of Point Pleasant (October 1774), as quoted in I Have Spoken : American History through the voices of the Indians (1971) by Virginia Irving Armstrong, p. 27
Variant: Let us kill all our women and children, and go fight till we die.
As quoted in Best Little Stories from Virginia (2003) by C. Brian Kelly, p. 74
Context: What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done. Then let us kill all our women and children and go fight until we die? I shall go and make peace!
2010s, The Disinvitation Game, or, Against Weenification (2018)
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90
“That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“No one
Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally.
Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.”
"Not Palaces" (l. 23–25)