Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
Of F. E. Smith.
On Kippis; Gregory’s Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone … sometimes in the name of His body”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 419
Context: In order to understand the Scriptures, it is absolutely necessary to know the whole, complete Christ, that is, Head and members. For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone … sometimes in the name of His body, which is the holy Church spread over the entire earth. And we are in His body … and we hear ourselves speaking in it, for the Apostle tells us: “We are members of His body” (Eph. 5:30). In many places does the Apostle tell us this.
“He understands not only with his brain but with his heart.”
On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997).
Context: He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.
To Liberal leader of the time Walter Tucker, quoted "Star Phoenix" July 14 1947.
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 4 (p. 32)
This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
Misattributed
Variant: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
The Canon of Judo (1956, 1960)
