“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”

Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Context: Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Source: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section IV, Donkey Avenue

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

The Club of Queer Trades http://books.google.com/books?id=mjcdk4InFzoC&amp;q=&amp;quot;Men+always+talk+about+the+most+important+things+to+total+strangers+it+is+because+in+the+total+stranger+we+perceive+man+himself+the+image+of+God+is+not+disguised+by+resemblances+to+an+uncle+or+doubts+of+the+wisdom+of+a+moustache&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PT93#v=onepage (1905) Ch. 5 &quot;The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd&quot;<br><br>book The Club of Queer Trades

Alfonso quem? So falo de quem eu conheco.
Source: Globo Esporte.
Context: Replying to journalists who had asked him what he thought about player Alfonso who had called him lazy.

Vinod Rai at a seminar on 'Public Accountability and the Role of CAG' organized by the Institute of Public Auditors of India at New Delhi on 28/03/2012.

Quoted in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bill: Choice Words Memorable Men (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009), p. 204.

In Search of History, Chapter I: War and Peace in Historical Perspectives, p. 1
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