"Ralph Kettell"
Brief Lives
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Source: Letter to his sister (Milan, 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations, Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972 (originally 1928)
“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act i. Sc. 4.
Sarah Bakewell book How to Live
Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 37.
“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The pot calls the kettle black.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 43.
“There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university.”
Jim Ede (1895–1990) art collector
From Introduction to the Handlist 1970
“To win a boar’s head one must sacrifice the hounds.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Bk. 3, st. 150, line 22; p. 86.
Parzival
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 188
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Statement after seeing David O. Selznick's remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957).
Papa Hemingway (1966)
