“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 497
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“There is less there than meets the eye.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Max Lerner (1902–1992) American journalist and educator
Quoted in Max Lerner, Writer, 89, Is Dead; Humanist on Political Barricades By Richard Severo, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/06/arts/max-lerner-writer-89-is-dead-humanist-on-political-barricades.html (6 June 1992)
“Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains
Source: Narcissus in Chains
“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”
Yann Martel book Beatrice and Virgil
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“I’m here, I’m queer, and don’t worry, I’m still full of existential fear.”
Dan Howell (1991) British video blogger and radio personality
“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
Stephen King book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep