“Hands off the BBC.”

— Dennis Skinner

Dennis Skinner Jokes ‘Hands Off The BBC’ During Queen’s Speech http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dennis-skinner-jokes-hands-off-the-bbc-during-queens-speech_uk_573c4150e4b03f08843dd84b Huffington Post, 18 May 2016
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British politician 1932

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

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“279. Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.”

Lee Child book Worth Dying For

Source: Worth Dying For

“"Don't let him cut my hand off—
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. But the hand was gone already.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Out, Out —"
1910s

“My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Russian composer and pianist

Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.

“He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.”

Frederick Rolfe book Hadrian the Seventh

Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 13, p. 223

“I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can’t be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the trade-off is fair.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Ira Levinson, Chapter 17, p. 237
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Context: My marriage brought great happiness into my life, but lately there's been nothing but sadness. I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can't be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the tradeoff is fair. A man should die as he had lived, I think; in his final moments, he should be surrounded and comforted by those he's always loved.

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

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