H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer
Captain Otto Harkaman in Space Viking (1962-1963)
Source: My Friend Leonard
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer
Captain Otto Harkaman in Space Viking (1962-1963)
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Slavoj Žižek book The Sublime Object of Ideology
The fool answered: 'Yes of course I know that, but does the hen know?'
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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Remarks to Lord Shaftesbury at the dissolution of Parliament (July 1865), quoted in Edwin Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. Volume III (London: Cassell, 1886), pp. 187-188. Gladstone said in a speech (18 July) in Manchester after he had been elected for South Lancashire: "At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come - to use an expression which has of late become very famous, and which, if I judge the matter rightly, is not likely soon to be forgotten - I am come among you "unmuzzled."
1860s
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994).
Undated
William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher
As quoted in The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes (2005) by Wendy Toliver, p. 18.
G. K. Chesterton book The Innocence of Father Brown
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Blue Cross
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Edward German (1862–1936) English musician and composer
German's exasperation with the perception of fellow composer Coates imitating his own style, in a letter to his sister Rachel (4 January, 1925)