“Everyone is so bloody keen on me thinking all of a sudden. It's not what I do.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
On the Royal National Theatre, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman
“Everyone is so bloody keen on me thinking all of a sudden. It's not what I do.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
“You think you kill me. I think you kill yourself.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Tú crees que me matas. Yo creo que te suicidas.
Voces (1943)
“War is a bloody business, a killing business.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Source: George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Private Richard Sharpe, p. 329
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)
“He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
“You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
The Hairless Mexican (1927)
Short Stories
“Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.”
Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order
Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 177