Roger Lewis (1960) Welsh academic and biographer
Of rival candidate for the Oxford Chair of Poetry Michael Horovitz.
Evening Standard, Mon 31 Oct 2011, p16
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Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist
True/Slant, "Sarah Palin as Margaret Thatcher, Except No" http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/07/14/sarah-palin-as-margaret-thatcher-except-no/, 10 July 2010.
“The less you think, the better it is.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“The less Islam, the better. It is as simple as that.”
Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician
Speech at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna (27 March 2015) http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/03/geert-wilders-in-vienna-part-2/ <br class="br">2010s
“The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Politics
Context: The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: No, the less I see them the better i like them.
Source: Women
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The less I know, the better I feel about a person or book.”
Larry King (1933) American television and radio host
On why he did not read a book before interviewing its author. <br class="br"> The Radio 'King': From Midnight to Dawn https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19810104&id=7DBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,4986335, Toledo Blade, Jan. 4, 1981.