
“Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.”
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 112
Source: The Savage Detectives
“Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.”
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 112
To Thomas Wentworth, cited by Luca Codignola in The Coldest Harbour of the Land (Québec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), p. 43.
Context: [B]eing bound for a long Journey to a Place which I have had a long Desire to visit, and have now the Opportunity and Leave to do: It is Newfoundland I mean, which imports me more than in Curiosity only to see; for I must either go and settle it in a better Order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the Charges I have been at hitherto for other Men to build their Fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.
Second term as Prime Minister
Source: Radio Interview for BBC Radio 3 (17 December 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105934
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
Attributed
Taking Chances (1944)
1.10 On the Misguided Romanticisation of Feline Psychopaths https://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedon1.htm#feline
The Hedonistic Imperative https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/514875 (1995)