François Mitterrand (May 1981)[citation needed]
Debate with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, characterising the latter (May 1981)
“He thinks I am the man of the past but I am still here. He is the man of the past.”
Remarks on British Prime Minister John Major (28 September 1993), quoted in The Times (29 September 1993), p. 1
President of the European Commission
An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
“Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.”
The Common Lot.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.”
"The Ethics of Pig"
The Gentle Grafter (1908)
“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”
Source: Irish Fairy Tales
“a man whose life is so boring that if it flashed past he wouldn't be in it”
Referring to former Labour Party member Peter Dunne.
Source: [Pryor, Nicole, Rare stumble by political chameleon, 8 June 2013, The Press, 8 June 2013, A16]
