“I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.”

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Murmured to the gay writer Sir Noël Coward at a gala. While she mounted a staircase lined with Guards, she noticed Coward's eyes flicker momentarily over the soldiers; as quoted by Thomas Blaikie in You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor (2002)

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Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth … 1900–2002

Brian Hanrahan (1949–2010) British journalist and television presenter

BBC News 20 December 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12037973

“I rushed across and started putting such handful of coins into the tin which he held out to me that it almost fell from his hand with the weight. ‘I am only a beggar, young sir, don’t put stones into my bowl'. 'These are not stones but coins. Count them if you wish’. I said. He sat and counted and then recounted sorting out the coins on that tattered cloth. He just could not believe it. He went on counting and feeling the coins. It made me so sad. I ran home in tears.”

Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker

An incident which he often narrated which profoundly affected him, page=4
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India

“That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast
On Aesop's Fables

“And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“Only an asshole would put together a budget like this. I wouldn't call you an asshole unless you really were an asshole.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

Supposedly said to Senator Pete Domenici at a GOP meeting in the fall of 1999. http://www.newsweek.com/id/82862
Disputed

“There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.”

Michael Connelly The Scarecrow

Source: The Scarecrow

“This time around it's different, them last two albums didn't count
Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushin' 'em out”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Talkin' 2 Myself"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

“I love it, but it doesn't knock me out.
I think it's great, but it could be better.
I like it a lot, it's just not my cup of tea,
yet if you were to change the melody,
take out a part that you think should be here,
put in a part that wouldn't otherwise appear?
Well, it's only an idea.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"I hate it, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
In other words, I quite enjoyed it.
Apart from which, it's the best you've ever done
yet if you were to change the words
it would be superb... with perhaps a different melody...?"
"I Love It But..." (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "I Love It But..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ip4ZvgO0Hw (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

“Count de Monet [consistently mispronounced as "count da money"]: Bearnaise, do we have any of those delicious raisins left?
Bearnaise: You ate yours. These are mine.
Count de Monet: Au contraire, they are mine! I paid for them! Hand them over!
Bearnaise [sotto voce, mimicking]: 'I paid for them! They're mine!'”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

[Blows a raspberry]
Count de Monet: Don't be saucy with me, Bearnaise.
History of the World, Part I

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.”

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