
“At last, my arm is complete again”
Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. Compare: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted", William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act iii. scene 2.
Misattributed
“At last, my arm is complete again”
Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
“Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.”
Book One, Part III “The Crimson Palace”, Chapter 6 (p. 155)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Rocinante was the name of Don Quixotes' horse.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
“They that have Power to do, may, when they will,
Pick Quarrels, and, pretending Justice, kill.”
Fab. XIV: Of the Wolf and the Lamb
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 24, 1923)
Letters
"The War of Caros"
The Poems of Ossian
“I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.”
Source: Sandman Slim
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)