“Well done, now give it back to them.”
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Spoken to Louis Nir in June 1967, after his unit captured Hebron in the Six-Day War), as quoted in "Is the end in sight?" by Henry Porter in The Observer (28 October 2001) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/nireland/story/0,11008,582158,00.html
“Should've played the bloody Sky Golem. And now he's got my other one. Give it BACK!”
TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator
Hearthstone series, Randuin 2 Electric Boogaloo (January 13, 2015)
“Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.”
Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
As quoted in The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004) by Max Wyman, p. 85
“Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).
“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Source: Forbidden Falls
