credit quotes

The middle-management of Manhattan stared on, their faces as thin as credit cards.

- Martin Louis Amis
  Money.

To have one's credit cards cancelled is nowakin to being excommunicated by the medieval church.

-Anonymous
  In Reader's Digest, Sep.

Anything you make a mistake about, I will get you out of, and anything you do well I will take the credit for.

- Ernest Bevin
Attributed, to a subordinate. Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor From the Boer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe (1995).

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending tothem.They leave itto Natureto cure in her own time, but they take the credit. Aswell as very fat fees.

-Wilson
  Nothing Like the Sun.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within; Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.

- Charles Churchill
  Night, l.311^12.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

- Sir Francis Darwin
  'Francis Galton', in Eugenics Review, vol.6, issue1,  Apr.

Are you at ease now? Is your heart at rest? Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella To keep the scorching world's opinion From your fair credit. 328

- Dario Fo
  Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, act 3, sc.1. Italian      playwright       and       actor-manager,       whose often

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

- Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in  Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

'Tis true, I'm broke! Vows, oaths, and all I had Of credit lost. And I am now run mad, Or do upon my self some desperate ill; This sadness makes no approaches, but to kill.

- Ben Jonson
The Underwood,'An Elegy', no.40 (published1640).

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Sunset Gun,'OscarWilde'.

They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

-James B(arrett) Reston
  Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.

And besides, Mrs Forthby in the flesh was a different kettle of fish to Mrs Forthby in his fantasies. In the latter she had a multitude of perverse inclinations, which corresponded exactly with his own unfortunate requirements, while possessing a discretion that would have done credit to aTrappist nun. In the flesh she was disappointingly different.

-Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe
  Blott on the Landscape, ch.3.

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

- Gertrude Stein
  On the first state lottery of1710. In theTatler, no.124, 24 Jan.

   Criticssearchforagesfor thewrong word, which, togive them credit, they eventually find.

- Sir PeterAlexander Ustinov
  BBC radio broadcast, Feb.

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

- Daniel Webster
  Speech, NewYork,10

   People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

-William III also called  William of Orange
  Letter, Jan.