
“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.”
Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130
A collection of quotes on the topic of whisker, likeness, man, god.
“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.”
Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130
Source: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 52: To his son Christopher Tolkien (29 November, 1943)
“Whiskers of the cat,
Webbed toes on my swimming dog;
God is in the details.”
Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows
Source: Magic Burns
“This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.”
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 159.
On the Labour Leadership Election result http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/2010/09/27/new-leader-ed-miliband-vows-to-unite-labour-as-party-face-elections-to-decide-who-sits-in-shadow-cabinet-86908-22590365/, September 27, 2010.
Source: Short fiction, Thomas the Proclaimer (1972), Chapter 3, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (p. 76)
The Blasphemy Debate with Christopher Hitchens
On the Guardian website
2000s