“I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”
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18th President of the United States 1822–1885Related quotes
“How I wish I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done.”
Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Claimed http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A668&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 by the evangelist Lady Hope; Reported in [They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions, 1989, Paul F., Jr., Boller, John, George, Oxford University Press, New York; Oxford, isbn - 978-0195064698, 88022115, [PN6081.B635 1989], 19] Darwin's daughter Henrietta refuted the claim, stating "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever."
Misattributed
Francisco De Goya
(1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, early Jan. 1779 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915977 and https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Francisco_de_Goya_-_Portrait_of_Mart%C3%ADn_Zapater_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 110
Early in January, 1779, Goya was presented to the Spanish King and the heir apparent, and kissed hands. They appreciated his pictures (cartoons), Goya made as designs for the royal tapestry factory, to cover the huge walls of the king's palace https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Palacio_Real_de_Madrid
1770s
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 2, “The Captain’s Last Supper” (p. 7)
“I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.”
Lews Therin, to Rand
The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
“I wish I understood myself
more clearly or less well.”
Geoffrey Hill
(1932–2016) English poet and professor
The Orchards of Syon II.17-18.
Poetry
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
