“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
Private Richard Sharpe to the Tippoo Sultan, p. 372
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)
“In politics, you live by the sword, and you die by the sword.”
At the election count in 2017 at Sheffield Hallam, where he lost his seat in the House of Commons. https://news.sky.com/video/clegg-you-live-by-the-sword-you-die-by-the-sword-10909195 Sky News (9 June 2017)
2017
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats”
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
Context: Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.