“I say you fellows, I expect to see fair play.”
Charles Hamilton (writer) (1876–1961) English writer of school stories
Bunter catchphrase
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)
Ripred, p. 240
The Underland Chronicles, Gregor the Overlander (2003)
“I say you fellows, I expect to see fair play.”
Charles Hamilton (writer) (1876–1961) English writer of school stories
Bunter catchphrase
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)
“Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Interlude “The Boy Who Chased Red Dresses” section 1 (p. 115)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) New Zealand writer
Fortitude (1913)
“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
Thomas Young (scientist) (1773–1829) English polymath
as quoted by Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930).
María Irene Fornés (1930–2018) American writer
On avoiding the typical play structures in “María Irene Fornés by Allen Frame” https://bombmagazine.org/articles/maria-irene-fornes/ in BOMB Magazine (1984 Oct 1)
“The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.”
John Lithgow (1945) American character actor, musician, and author
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Ultimate Guitar Interview (2008)