„Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not
Always spoken the truth in my books?“

„I love truth, and wish to have it always spoken to me : I hate a liar. (translated by Thornton)“

—  Plautus, Mostellaria

Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 26
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
Original: (la) Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.

„Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.“

—  Pat Conroy American novelist 1945 - 2016

Quelle: My Reading Life

„I don't cry. Water doesn't leave my head. I've got loads of gob. That's how water leaves me, it's not out of my eyes.“

—  Karl Pilkington English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer 1972

The Moaning of Life, General Quotes

„Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.“

—  Moby Activist, American musician, DJ and photographer 1965

As quoted in "I lost my heart in... New York", in The Guardian (13 May 2005) http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2005/may/14/lostmyheart.guardiansaturdaytravelsection

„I don't know myself, what to do, where to go… I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort… it's what the world offers… please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.“

—  William H. Gass, buch Omensetter's Luck

Quelle: Omensetter's Luck

„My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.“

—  Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Quelle: The Goose Girl

„They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.“

—  Otto von Bismarck German statesman, Chancellor of Germany 1815 - 1898

Talking to Gyula Andrássy in Salzburg on 18 September 1877. As quoted in Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics (1935) by Robert William Seton-Watson, p. 224 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=5CPVAAAAMAAJ&q=fox; "Schlaukopf" is translated elsewhere as "clever dick" or "smart aleck."

With deal (instead of do) with a pirate, in Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy's influence on Habsburg foreign policy during the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 (1979) by János Decsy, p. 21 http://books.google.de/books?id=JtUhAAAAMAAJ&q=111

„Man behandelt mich wie einen Fuchs, wie einen Schlaukopf erster Klasse. Die Wahrheit aber ist, qu'avec un gentleman je suis toujours gentleman et demi, et que quand j'ai affaire à un corsaire, je tâche d'etre corsaire et demi"
:Eduard von Wertheimer: Graf Julius Andrássy. Sein Leben und seine Zeit. Vol. III. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart 1914 pp. 42-43 http://books.google.de/books?id=2skhAAAAMAAJ&q=demi
1870s

„Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them.“

—  David Gerrold, buch When HARLIE Was One

Section 41 (p. 235)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)

„I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.“

—  George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Quelle: Pygmalion

„don't treat me like a child."
He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult.“

—  Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Quelle: The Faceless Ones

„I have 5,000 books in my home, 1,000 of which I feel are close to my heart. They have always shown me the way. Books are my great passion; I could not live without them.“

—  Brunello Cucinelli Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist 1953

Quelle: A Day In the Life of Brunello Cucinelli https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a17874/brunello-cucinelli-profile/ Harper's Bazaar, Lauren McCarthy, 15 September 2016

„The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it--this is me.“

—  Rihanna Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress 1988

Allure magazine, January 2008.

„I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.“

—  Stephen Fry English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

"Trefusis Returns!" in Paperweight (1993) p. 279.
Originally printed in The Daily Telegraph circa 1990.
1990s

„A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.“

—  Madeline Miller, buch The Song of Achilles

Variante: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
Quelle: The Song of Achilles

„I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!“

—  Emily Brontë, buch Sturmhöhe

Heathcliff (Ch. XVI).
Quelle: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Kontext: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe; I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

„I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.“

—  Anastacia American singer-songwriter 1968

The Time Finally Comes for Anastacia http://www.pauseandplay.com/the-time-finally-comes-for-anastacia/, PauseandPlay.com, April 9, 2000.
General Quotes

„I don't suffer much from solitude in the evenings. I spring upon my books. I always spoke a good word for solitude, and it is grateful to me. Books ward off the ghastly thoughts.“

—  Samuel Palmer British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker 1805 - 1881

The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)

„Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942

Jerome, to Nagiko
The Pillow Book

„Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping…“

—  John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980