“If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
Heirloom (1982).
“If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
Chagall stated this in 1950
as quoted in From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 219
after 1930
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist
Malcolm Muggeridge who had an serious affair with her in The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-1947, page=46
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Part I, section xxii, stanza 10
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
Edward Everett (1794–1865) American politician, orator, statesman
"The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth" In The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal Vol. V, No. 25 (January-June 1823), p. 64.
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
The Prisoner of Chillon http://readytogoebooks.com/PC31.htm, st. 1 (1816).
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Canto II, stanza 22. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)