“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”
Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) English poet and playwright
Act III, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)
He once said of his role in transforming Monaco. <br class="br"> washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32779-2005Apr6.html
“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”
Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) English poet and playwright
Act III, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Seward, 617
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Page 62 <br class="br">Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse
“I liked it so much, I bought the company”
Victor Kiam (1926–2001) American businessman, American football executive
TV commercial for Remington Shavers, 1979 <br class="br">Source: I liked the slogan so much..., 30 May 2001, 31 May 2015, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1357091.stm,
“I am the rebel head of an establishment government.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Remark to a reception at 10 Downing Street (24 June 1980), quoted in Norman St John-Stevas, The Two Cities (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p. 83
First term as Prime Minister
Alec Reed (1934) British businessman
The Business Times Online https://www.reedglobal.com/documents/110470/280381/Talent+tapper/ed157555-fdc6-4665-a265-70b2d407abd4, 2012.