“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
Catch Phrases
“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik vraag me [af] - klinkt het al gauw, of die lijn zich niet wat repeteert [in het schilderij waaraan hij werkt].. .Het is zoo'n beetje hetzelfde, hè? aan alle bei de kanten, vindt-je niet? [interviewer: 'Misschien wel! ' waag ik te zeggen. Er is geen ontkomen aan; ik moet advies geven]<br>Quote of W. Roelofs, 1880's; recorded by an unknown interviewer, published in Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift: verzameling van.., Oct. Nov. 1891; as cited in an excerpt in the RKD Archive https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/220, The Hague <br class="br">1880's
H.P. Lovecraft book The Street
"The Street" - first published in The Wolverine, No. 8 (December 1920)
Fiction
Isidore Isou (1925–2007) Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist
Venom and Eternity (1951), Chapter II
“Pieces were stolen from me
Or dare I say, given away.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"I Appear Missing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
As quoted in Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War (1922) by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson.
1860s
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
The New York Herald Tribune (31 March 1954)