
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Variant: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Source: The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Variant: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Source: The Great Gatsby
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes (December 2008) http://www.reason.com/news/show/129996.html
1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)
Context: Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception — especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they are scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.
Letter to Fanny Burney; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 3.
“Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from.”
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski