
“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Source: This Lullaby
“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“Be, as you have been, my happiness;
Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.”
"Woman," lines 170-171
The Lost World (1965)
Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini: A Biography (1983) p. 8. As quoted by Mussolini after he was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914.
1910s
Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Talking New York
“Tell me some true things about fighting.'
'Tell me you love me.”
'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.'
Renata and Colonel Richard Cantwell in Ch. 12
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)