The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act II, scene 5.
“Character is plot, plot is character.”
“All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.”
Source: White Noise (1984), Ch. 6
“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”
Source: The Final Empire
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”
"A Conversation Between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain", in R. Lehmann et al. (eds.) Orion (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) vol. 1, p. 2.
“I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955), p. 76
“a Masonic plot backed by the Jews”
About the Vatican Council, 3 August 2003 article mentions this was published 4 months ago http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/movies/mel-gibson-s-martyrdom-complex.html
“Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.”
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
The New York Times (26 November 1978)
