“Let us be elegant or die!”
Variant: ... but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
Source: Little Women
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American novelist 1832–1888Related quotes
“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.
Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349
Some editions of Seneca prefer the reading Bibamus, moriendum est (Let us drink – we must die).
Controversiae
During negotiations with Crook and others, in [Books on Google Play Congressional Serial Set, 1890, U.S. Government Printing Office, https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ0ZAAAAYAAJ, 1 March 2018, 59]
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Variant: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 223
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
“Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.”
England's Trust, part iii, line 227, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.