Source: Clockwork Princess
“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Quote is often seen as attributed to Joan of Arc. However, the quote is actually a line from a script for the 1946 Broadway play entitled Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson which later become a movie in 1948 entitled Joan of Arc directed by Victor Fleming and starring Ingrid Bergman. The line is spoken by Joan of Arc to Bishop Pierre Cauchon in Act II, Scene III of the play. ( Script http://books.google.com/books?id=bOe6kHHbSiEC)
Misattributed
Pt. III, st. 35
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time.”
from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.”
The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665
