"Greville Fane" http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/gfane10.txt, from The Real Thing: and Other Tales (1893).
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”
On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Source: Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/21/le.00.html, CNN (21 March 2004)
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.”
Habit Notes continued
Naked Lunch (1959)
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…”
[1926, August, The Creative Impulse, Harper's Bazar, 41, 0017-7873, Hearst Corp., New York]
Revised with quotation in the 1931 compilation Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular.
Often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde
Short Stories
“Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..”
Source: Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), Ch. 8 "The Other Door"
“My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.”
Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII
Major Richard Sharpe (describing his murdered wife, Teresa Moreno) p. 339
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
