Source: Howl's Moving Castle
““Can I trust you, my friend?”
“If you can’t, then what is my assurance worth?””
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 48
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 132)
“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”
Source: movie Amadeus (1984)
“At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.”
Speech to the electors of South Lancashire. (18 July 1865)
1860s
“You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.”
Letter to William Strahan (5 July 1775); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“You are my personal friend. Let me assure you of my esteem, consideration and bond.”
Vous êtes mon ami personnel. Vous êtes assuré de mon estime, de ma considération et de mon affection.
Declaration on September 5, 1974, about the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Aeschimann, Éric & Boltanski, Christophe (2006). Chirac d'Arabie : Les mirages d'une politique française (in French), Grasset & Fasquelle, pp. 64, ISBN 2246691214
Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.
“I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.”
[The Book of Ammon, 1970, Hennacy, 205]
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
