“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.”
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)
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Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
quote from 1988
1981 - 1990
Source: Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003, Achim Sommer, Kunsthalle Emden, Altana 2004, p. 27
“Is every death on the cross associated with paying the sins of others?”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”
Anthony Trollope book He Knew He Was Right
Source: He Knew He Was Right
“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
This remark referring to Charles de Gaulle was actually made by General Edward Louis Spears, Churchill's personal representative to the Free French.
Film producer Alexander Korda asked Churchill in 1948 if he had made the remark, he replied
No, I didn't say it; but I'm sorry I didn't, because it was quite witty … and so true!
Quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century p. 105.
Misattributed
“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Hester Thrale (1741–1821) Welsh author and salon-holder
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.