Response of a request by José de la Riva Agüero for support in a revolution against the Peruvian congress in 1823, as quoted in 'Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 201
Context: Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”
“You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.”
I'm not Stiller (1955)
“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
Source: Favorite Poems
"Every Time I Eat Vegetables...", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
"Newcity Chicago," April 2008, on the arcade game "Tetris"