“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 2014. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro https://theintercept.com/2014/12/11/misogynistic-hateful-elected-official-democacratic-world-brazils-jair-bolsonaro/. The Intercept (11 December 2014).
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“I would never rape you, because you don't deserve it.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies in November 2003 http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2014/12/1559815-para-rebater-deputada-bolsonaro-diz-que-nao-a-estupraria.shtml. Brazil’s Trump? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-01-19/brazils-controversial-congressman-jair-bolsonaro-eyes-the-presidency. US News (19 January 2017).
Cynthia Lord (1950) American children's writer
Source: Touch Blue
“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act III, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert
“I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Lyrics, October (1981)