
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Affurisms: Slips of the Pen http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q="The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing"&pg=PA227#v=onepage The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)
“Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.”
The infernal Marriage, part 2, Chapter 4 (1834).
Books
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654), Act I, scene ii, lines 208–209. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. Perhaps by George Peele.
Disputed
“I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion…. but it won't get much sleep.”
“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”
XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]