
“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Spanish Recognitions: The Road from the Past (2004)
“Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.”
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro," first published in Esquire (August 1936); later published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Originally in Esquire "Julian" was named as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, in "The Rich Boy" (1926) had written: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand..." Fitzgerald responded to this in a letter (August 1936) to Hemingway saying: "Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
“Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body—
Need a body cry?”
Letter to Cassandra (1800-11-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
Pt. I, lines 532–533. Compare Matthew Prior, Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana, "They always talk who never think".
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (1681)