“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
St. Ronan's Well (1824), Ch. 7.
“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“At least I’m not American fat, I’m interesting European delicatessen fat!”
“It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."”
In response to a line of a tragedy that went 'Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." June 1784
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.”
“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”
City of Ashes
Variant: Enormous? Did you just call me fat?
“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”
When asked by a journalist if she was pregnant again, as quoted in "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet in BBC News (29 December 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7163697.stm