If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
Anthony Burgess
Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He had never read Proust, but he had somehow taken a short cut across the allotments and arrived at the same conclusions.
Alan Bennett
I generally had to give in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never metor never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Robert Burns