“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)
Variant: I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)
“You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
As "Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr" in The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet
As quoted in What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery (1919) by William Alexander Newman Dorland
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
The Lord of Misrule
The Lord of Misrule and Other Poems (1915)
Context: He died and He went down to hell!
You know not what you mean.
Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green.
But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall,
We tell you He is risen again,
The Lord of Life is risen again,
The boughs put forth their tender buds, and
Love is Lord of all!
“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
Oscar Levant, as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); quoted in "Books and Things" by Lewis Gannett, in The New York Herald Tribune (January 13, 1940), p. 11
“You think you kill me. I think you kill yourself.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Tú crees que me matas. Yo creo que te suicidas.
Voces (1943)
“Seriously? You won’t help me?”
“Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.”
Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers
Source: Peter and the Starcatchers
Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (1908–1993) British noble
Source: Interview by Rynn Berry, pp. 137-38