“[Frenchmen] are not the sort of people one would go tiger-shooting with.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) British politician
Leonard Mosley, Curzon: The End of an Epoch (London: Longmans, 1960), p. 210.
“Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers.
Grandfather, have you ever run into bad people?
There aren’t many tigers but lots of bad people, only you can’t shoot people.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 105
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