
“I'm like a good clock, I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too.”
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 19, p. 229.
John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791); cited from John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth's Works (1883) p. 122.
Later sources usually quote this as "I hate all bainters and boets!", or as "Damn the bainters and the boets too!" The saying is often misattributed to George I.
“I'm like a good clock, I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too.”
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 19, p. 229.
“To be or not to be…Neither one nor the other.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Referring to Mr. Burns. Compare to Heart of Darkness' manager: "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well..."
The Shadow Line (1915)
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Vice and Virtue, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)