list quotes

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little listI've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And whonever would be missed whonever would be missed! There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

Sir,Ihavetwoverycogent reasonsfornot printing any list of subscribers;one, that Ihave lost all thenames,the other, that I have spent all the money.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

As Lord Chesterfield said ofthegenerals of his day,'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do'.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  Letter, 29 Aug, during the PeninsularWar. Collected in Supplementary Despatches (1860).