On a Certain Condesceneion in Foreigners
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)
“My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.”
Ibid., p. 101
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Os meus sonhos são um refúgio estúpido, como um guarda-chuva contra um raio.
“Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple
Breaks, blindly, against the shore.”
"Seagulls on the Serpentine"
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems (1924)
“For no human defense avails against Heaven.”
Canzone 270, st. 6
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
Source: As quoted in National Observer (3 February 1964)
“Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini”
Source: Midnight Alley
“To the troops. [Audience cheers as he drinks scotch]”
Behavioral Problems
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.”
Vol. I, ch. 1, p. 15
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“I'm sweating scotch out of every pore in my body.”
You Can't Fix Stupid
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
Alleged last words, but Bacall denies this.
Misattributed
Source: By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall http://books.google.co.id/books?id=OTCPSdKei_oC&pg=PT308&dq=lauren+bacall+scotch+to+martinis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sd7QU-kCiJO4BP-CgIAL&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=goodbye%20kid&f=false,
