1772
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them.”
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1784; taken from Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perseverencia, p. 58
1780s
Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), New England Reformers
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) English illustrator and author
In an interview with <i>The Idler</i> (1896), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 309
“I am not an enemy of Turkey; I am a friend of the Turkish people”
Massoud Barzani (1946) Iraqi Kurdish politician
Turkey and PKK
Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680302,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican-American actress and producer
O interview (2003)
Context: I've learned from others' lives... What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public — keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. I am suspicious of those who have to let the world know how much they love each other. It's a little sad when you have to brag about how much you love someone. That kind of declaration doesn't always reflect the moment of truth between two people who care deeply for each other. When that truth is there, you don't need others to know it. And when somebody truly loves you, you don't even need him or her to be affectionate. Affection is fantastic, but it doesn't necessarily mean there's love — and the public display of affection is often just a show.
“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.”
Charles Demuth (1883–1935) American painter
Quoted in Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde by Jonathan Weinberg (Yale University Press, 1993).
