
“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
Act IV, scene v
The Way of the World (1700)
“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
Letter to Henry Miller, 1948
7:10am 13 August 2018 https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1029007345005879296 reply to CTV News misquotation "Diversity will 'destroy' what makes Canada great" https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1029000159856914434 at 6:42am, leading CTV to re-issue the report under a different title by 9:40am https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tory-mp-bernier-criticized-for-saying-more-diversity-will-destroy-what-makes-canada-great-1.4050494
2018
Statement in The Spectator (1711), as quoted in The Reign of Queen Anne (1902) by Justin McCarthy
Misattributed
“Ties between our two countries are literally, literally unbreakable.”
addressing the 2010 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America on relations between the United States of America and the State of Israel, 2010-11-07, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Israel Resumption of Building Settlements Could Derail Peace Talks, PBS Newshour, 2010-11-08, 2012-07-01 http://newshour-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2010/11/08/20101108_mideast1.mp3,
Israel Resumption of Building Settlements Could Derail Peace Talks, PBS Newshour, 2010-11-08, 2012-07-01 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec10/mideast1_11-08.html,
Biden reaffirms U.S. support for Israel in speech to Jewish group, CNN, 2010-11-07, 2012-07-01 http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-07/politics/louisiana.biden.israel_1_vice-president-joe-biden-peace-talks-israel, (Misquotation omits the second utterance of the word “literally”.)
2010s
EU referendum: Leavers 'want to have cake and eat it', Elizabeth Truss claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36512743 BBC News (12 June 2016)
2016
No. 1 (1 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Speech in the House of Commons (3 March 1831), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (London: Colburn and Co., 1852), pp. 172-173.
1830s
After the Revolution? (1970; 1990), Ch. 3 : Democracy and Markets