
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)
Act 6, sc. 6
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)
Source: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
“I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.”
Je n'ai rien vaillant; je dois beaucoup; je donne le reste aux pauvres.
His one line will, as quoted in Arthur Machen : A Short Account of His Life and Work (1964) by Aidan Reynolds and William E. Charlton, p. 186.
“I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers (Regnery, 1969), p. 75
Context: Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"
At the battle of Copenhagen, Ignoring Admiral Parker's signal to retreat, holding his telescope up to his blind eye, and proceeding to victory against the Danish fleet. (2 April 1801); as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 7
1800s
Context: To leave off action"? Well, damn me if I do! You know, Foley, I have only one eye,— I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
In "Painting as a Pastime", first published in the Strand Magazine in two parts (December 1921/January 1922), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 456 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)