Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
Forrest to Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi and Isham G. Harris, former Governor of Tennessee, in response to the request that he keep fighting. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!”
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) British labour leader, politician, and statesman
Attributed to Bevin in the Spectator, 20 April 1951.
Bevin's definition of his foreign policy. Variously quoted as "to be able to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn please!".
“Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Response to a question on expelling Americans from Libya (March 1973), quoted in Time (2 April 1973) " The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907040-6,00.html"
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199710161841.LAA13208@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) British Whig statesman
W. M. Torrens Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne (1890), p. 234
Attributed
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads
Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
