“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Under my cloak, a fig for the King!”
— Graham Greene, book Monsignor Quixote
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
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“Many a Congressman was a communalist under his national cloak.”
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Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)
Context: Many a Congressman was a communalist under his national cloak. But the Congress leadership stood firm and, on the whole, refused to side with either communal party, or rather with any communal group. Long ago, right at the commencement of non-co-operation or even earlier, Gandhiji had laid down his formula for solving the communal problem. According to him, it could only be solved by goodwill and the generosity of the majority group, and so he was prepared to agree to everything that the Muslims might demand. He wanted to win them over, not to bargain with them. With foresight and a true sense of values he grasped at the reality that was worthwhile; but others who thought they knew the market price of everything, and were ignorant of the true value of anything, stuck to the methods of the market-place. They saw the cost of purchase with painful clearness, but they had no appreciation of the worth of the article they might have bought. <!-- p. 136
“I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.”
Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in Menander: The Principal Fragments (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson.
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
Edward Coke (1552–1634) English lawyer and judge
Prohibitions del Roy, 12 Co. Rep. 63, quoting Henry de Bracton's treatise on the laws and customs of England. http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs4/77ER1342.html <br class="br">Institutes of the Laws of England
“In the name of the Prophet—figs.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) English poet and novelist
Johnson's Ghost, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
