“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”
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Source: Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual
“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”
King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.
“Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)”
1950s, Russell–Einstein Manifesto (1955)
Quoted in Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints, vol. II: April, May, June, Burns & Oates, 1956, p. 24.
Jim diGriz, in "The Stainless Steel Rat" in Astounding magazine (August 1957)
The Stainless Steel Rat
Context: The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years.
I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe — only I wasn't going to be doing it alone.
“Kitchener, a great man or a great poster?”
Attributed to Margot Asquith, as in Sir Philip Magnus, Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist (1938, ch. xiv): "Mrs. Asquith remarked indiscreetly that if Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster." Asquith herself, however, wrote in More Memories (London: Cassel, 1933, p. 135) that the remark was made by her daughter, Elizabeth Bibesco.
Misattributed
Source: Letter to Lord John Manners, referring to the tactics of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel (17 December 1846), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (Vol. 2) (1913), p. 337-338.
TRICK 'R TREAT DIRECTOR MICHAEL DOUGHERTY ON THE FILM’S RISE TO CULT CLASSIC STATUS http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/17/trick-r-treat-director-michael-dougherty-on-the-films-rise-to-cult-classic-status?page=2 (October 17, 2013)