Attacking Ian Mikardo, a left-wing critic of spending cuts, using a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold (The Daily Telegraph, 24 February, 1976), quoted in Denis Healey The Time of My Life (Penguin, 1990), p. 444
1970s
Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny: Live in London (2008)
“I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
As quoted in "Donald Trump has read a lot of books on China: 'I understand the Chinese mind'" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/donald-trump-i-understand-the-chinese-mind.html, Los Angeles Times (3 May 2011), and in Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2015/08/24/playing-the-chinese-trump-card/ (August 2015)
2010s, 2011
Source: The Art of the Deal
"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
Vol. 1, bk. 1, ch.4
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
Women Saints of East and West
Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).
“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”
Book I, ch. 23.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
152
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
quoted by George A. Simonson in [Antonio Canal, The Burlington Magazine, January 1922, 40, 226, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924015109949;view=1up;seq=49, 36–41] (quote from pp. 39–40, taken from a letter by Owen Swiny to the 2nd Duke of Richmond, concerning Canaletto)
“He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.”
Referring to an unsuitable applicant for a high-ranking government position.
Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
