“Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.”

Dreamland (2000)

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 24 (p. 186)

Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, — that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves,
Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant!
"Les Sept Vieillards" [The Seven Old Men] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_sept_vieillards
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

Leisure

Bad (1987)