“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”
Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
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German poet 1770–1843Related quotes
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) American poet, story-writer and critic
To-night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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.
“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
“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).
William Ernest Henley book Invictus
This may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate.
Invictus (1875)
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“I'll give you something to remember ME by… The back of my head!”
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: The Coffin Club