Thomas Middleton Anything for a Quiet Life
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, part ii, Act i. sc. 2.
“I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through.”
— Keith Waterhouse, book Billy Liar
Billy Liar, ch. 11
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Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 13.
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
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“In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies", William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.