““Can I trust you, my friend?”
“If you can’t, then what is my assurance worth?””
Robert A. Heinlein book Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 48
“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
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Charles Stross book Singularity Sky
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.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Source: movie Amadeus (1984)
“At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
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.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
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.”
Jacques Chirac (1932–2019) 22nd President of France
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
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
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.”
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
[The Book of Ammon, 1970, Hennacy, 205]
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)