Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
Quoted in "Italienisch-ostafrika(1936-1941)" - Page 18 - by Stefan Plenk - 2008
Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_03_08utah.htm.
2000
“I beg your pardon I egg your noggin got nina up in my glove compartment.”
Same Damn Tune
Official Mix tapes, Dedication 4 (2012)
“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state”
I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Statement to the Senate (1814) He echoes here the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
Variant translation: A throne is only a bench covered with velvet...
“I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god. The idea of Glycon is Glycon, if I can enhance that idea with an anaconda and a speaking tube, fair enough. I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe. It’s a fiction, all gods are fiction. It’s just that I happen to think that fiction’s real. Or that it has its own reality, that is just as valid as ours. I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction – before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction. This is the most important world, the world of fictional things. That’s the world where all this starts.
