“At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the electors of South Lancashire. (18 July 1865)
1860s
iv. 35
From Symposium by Xenophon
“At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the electors of South Lancashire. (18 July 1865)
1860s
William Barnes (1801–1886) English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist
The Wind at the Door, from Poets of the English Language, W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950).
“All my life,” I said, “knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.”
Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Three, Part III “Inside the Hollow Star”, Chapter 1 (p. 379)
The Birthgrave (1975)
“Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Last words in a letter to John Adams, as quoted in Famous Last Words (1961) by Barnaby Conrad
“Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.
Sisi Yemmie (1984) Nigerian Youtuber
Source: https://guardian.ng/life/spotlight/sisi-yemmie-the-inspirational-vlogger/ Sir yemmie speaking at an interview.