“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
“I am neither as drunk as a Lord, nor as sober as a judge. I am more in the condition of a Lord Justice.”
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Ambrose (339–397) bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch
“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
“Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
A Door in the Hive (1989), Flickering Mind
“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
“I am Lord Nelson. See, here's my fin.”
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
Indicating his stub of his missing arm during the battle of Copenhagen, as quoted in Nelson and the Hamiltons (1969) by Jack Russell, p. 238
1800s
