Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
„And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…“
— Stephenie Meyer American author 1973
he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
— Ted Dekker American writer 1962
Quelle: Black: The Birth of Evil
„I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.“
— George Chapman English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559 - 1634
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654), Act I, scene ii, lines 208–209. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. Perhaps by George Peele.
Disputed
— Josh Billings American humorist 1818 - 1885
Affurisms: Slips of the Pen http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q="The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing"&pg=PA227#v=onepage The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)
„Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
The infernal Marriage, part 2, Chapter 4 (1834).
Books
— Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970
Actually said by Giorgos Seferis
Misattributed
— Robert A. Heinlein, buch Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Quelle: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7
„The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.“
— John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]
„I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion…. but it won't get much sleep.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.“
— Homér, Ilias
XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Original: (el) Ὡς οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὅρκια πιστά,
οὐδὲ λύκοι τε καὶ ἄρνες ὁμόφρονα θυμὸν ἔχουσιν.
— Giorgos Seferis Greek poet and diplomat 1900 - 1971
Quelle: "Greek poet's odyssey", 17 Jan 1964, LIFE Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3, Page 75.
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
— Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945
Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)
„I do love thee as my lambs
Are belovėd of their dams“
— Henry Constable English poet 1562 - 1613
Diaphenia
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book XXII
— Horace Bushnell American theologian 1802 - 1876
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.
