“I determined to rule in broad daylight or not at all”
Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
letter a friend September 21, 1878 reflecting on his election loss Buckingham page 518
Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/sep/11/politics.guardiancolumnists
“I determined to rule in broad daylight or not at all”
Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
letter a friend September 21, 1878 reflecting on his election loss Buckingham page 518
“I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.”
Sarah Dessen book Dreamland
Dreamland (2000)
“Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”
Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 24 (p. 186)
“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
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.
“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."”
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
“Ant-swarming city, city abounding in dreams,
Where ghosts in broad daylight accost the passerby!”
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves,<br>Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant! <br class="br">"Les Sept Vieillards" [The Seven Old Men] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_sept_vieillards <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
“Your butt is mine
Gonna tell you right
Just show your face
In broad daylight”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Bad (1987)