Mary Renault book The Charioteer
Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 164
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 211
Mary Renault book The Charioteer
Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 164
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) Chinese empress
As attributed in The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China, Hannah Pakula, 2009, Simon and Schuster, 391, 1439148937, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=4ZpVntUTZfkC&pg=PA39, <br class="br">This is redacted from the account of Princess Der Ling, Two Years in the Forbidden City (1911), p. 356 http://books.google.com/books?id=KdUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA356
“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Context: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
An American and France (1936)
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) American general and politician
Quoted by Richard Rhodes in Wikipedia: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Nikita Gokhale (1990) Indian Actress, Indian Model
"‘6 bold statements of Nikita Gokhale’" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/marathi/movies/6-bold-statements-of-Nikita-Gokhale/6-bold-statements-of-Nikita-Gokhale/photostory/45617534.cms.TimesOfIndia.com. December 23, 2014.
Meryl Streep (1949) American actress
"Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans," 2012