
Source: His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
Source: The Way of Kings
Source: His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
As quoted in The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896) by Jehiel K̀eeler Hoyt, p. 763
Édouard Fournier, in L'Espirit dans l'Historie (1867), 3rd edition, Ch. 51, p. 260, disputes the traditional attribution, and suggests various agents of Richelieu might have been the actual author.
David Hackett Fischer, in Champlain's Dream (2009), Simon & Schuster, p. 704, n. 14, says it's a paraphrase of Quintilian and there is no source closer to Richelieu than Francoise Bertaut's Memoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Anne d'Autriche.
Disputed
My vibe is more like, "Hey, you could pour soup in my lap and I'll probably apologize to you."
The Comeback Kid (2015)