“Alas! It is well written, "The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses."”
The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
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“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: 1854, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second series, Hungry Husbands. Often quoted as The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Also quoted in Chambers dictionary of Quotations, p. 321
“A good, square, stone house, placed on an eminence, facing the Bishop's Palace at Auckland.”
Of the house where he was born, p. 25.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)
"Introductory Lecture" delivered on October 3, 1892 at University College, London.
“At the end of the road of Taiwan independence lies unification.”
Zhang Zhijun (2017) cited in " Premier seeks goodwill after Chinese warnings on independence http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2017/03/08/493122/Premier-seeks.htm" on The China Post, 8 March 2017.
Speech to Liberals in Belmont (2 January 1903), quoted in John Wilson, C.B.: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (London: Constable, 1973), p. 394
Leader of the Opposition