The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
St. Ronan's Well (1824), Ch. 7.
“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”
When asked by a journalist if she was pregnant again, as quoted in "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet in BBC News (29 December 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7163697.stm
Also told to Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”
Source: I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
“I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”
City of Ashes
Variant: Enormous? Did you just call me fat?
Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 3
“From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.”
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Act 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=P4A-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22From+forty+till+fifty+a+man+is+at+heart+either+a+stoic+or+a+satyr%22&pg=PA38#v=onepage (1893)
“Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?”
Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19
Context: "I wish to become a teacher of the Truth."
"Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?"
"I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?"
"You will have grown accustomed to it."
