„Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!“
Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Original: (da) Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
Original
Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
Augustus6
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„Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!“
— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).
„I'll give you something to remember ME by… The back of my head!“
— Ellen Schreiber American writer 1967
Quelle: The Coffin Club
„Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.“
— Joe Orton English playwright and author 1933 - 1967
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
„Jack: [poking his head through the stage curtains] Bob, will you please give me my pants back?“
— Jack Benny comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor 1894 - 1974
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
Variante: Don Wilson: [Poking his head through the curtains] Bob, Bob, quick, give me Jack's pants!
„Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.“
— Billy Joe Shaver American singer-songwriter 1939
Statement made by Shaver after being acquitted from aggravated assault charges.
Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir French painter and sculptor 1841 - 1919
quote from a letter written by Félix Fénéon, published in 'Le Bulletin des artistes' 15th December 1919
this quote is expressing Renoir's last painter-remark, 30 November 1919, three days before he died.
after 1900
— P. C. Cast American writer 1960
— Louise Chandler Moulton American poet, story-writer and critic 1835 - 1908
To-night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Federico García Lorca Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898 - 1936
¡No me mires más! Si quieres te daré mis ojos, que son frescos, y mis espaldas para que te compongas la joroba que tienes.
Act II (ll. 578–580)
The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)
„If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was…“
O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 560 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
