Famous quotations that never were

[MrP]

Quotation (original language if you feel like it, though contemporary English is fine) and he/she who uttered it and on which occasion.

veni, vidi, fugi.

I came, I saw, I ran away.

GJC on meeting the armies of Pompey the Great in northern Italia in 49 BC.

[Scarecrow]

Damn, I was thinking the same thing. I curse you P.

"Poor little Belgium. So far from God and so close to France."

- Charles Spencer Churchill, 1925

[DAv]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Damn, I was thinking the same thing. I curse you P.

"Poor little Belgium. So far from God and so close to France."

- Charles Spencer Churchill, 1925

That actually sounds like a quote OTL Churchill would say...

[MrP]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Damn, I was thinking the same thing. I curse you P.

Nek has let me use the internet-mind-reading machine he stole from Thande.

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

"Poor little Belgium. So far from God and so close to France."

- Charles Spencer Churchill, 1925

I second, DAv.

[Scarecrow]

Originally Posted by DAv

That actually sounds like a quote OTL Churchill would say...

Originally Posted by MrP

I second, DAv.

I thankee. I think the original quote is something about poor little Poland, but I cannot for the life of me remember who said it.

[Analytical Engine]

"Belgium? Why did it have to be Belgium?"

-- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

[Max Sinister]

From my Chaos TL:

"I'd even have appreciated help by the devil, if this could help me to bring down the Socialists. We fought them on the sea, wherever we could get hold of them; but with your help, we shall also fight them on the fields, ..." - Sir Winston of Marlborough, hunter of Socialist pirates in the Pacific from New Albion (OTL NZ)

"All the ill in the world comes from empty promises" (often shortened to "No empty promises!") and "No theory, no ideology, and no religion is greater than the Truth!" - Sophie Stein, atheist-Jewish philosopher and essay writer, founder of Veritism

"Sophie Stein is the stone that breaks the steel of Socialist propaganda!" - her most prominent patron, Culture/Propaganda Technocrat Georg Hartmann

"Do not spoil the joy and fun of others" - Chandramoorthy, hedonistic Indian guru

[Gonzaga]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

I thankee. I think the original quote is something about poor little Poland, but I cannot for the life of me remember who said it.

It's tributed to Porfirio Diaz, about Mexico: Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.

[fortyseven]

Great thread. First 2 are funny.

Paris isn't worth a cent.

Henry IV of France (1589-1595)

[the_lyniezian]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Damn, I was thinking the same thing. I curse you P.

Warning: don't throw curses about lightly- they may have serious consequences!

[carlton_bach]

Originally Posted by the_lyniezian

Warning: don't throw curses about lightly- they may have serious consequences!

Only if you mean them. For all its complex mathematics, magic is fundamentally intent-based.

[fortyseven]

Originally Posted by Boom22

"For those that desire war, let them prepare for peace." Vegitatius

Great.

Originally Posted by Supernatural Rabbit Scrib

"I have had it with these @#$%&* Nazis in this @#$%&* convent"

Samuel L. Jackson, The Sound of @#$%&* Music, 2006

Funny.

Originally Posted by Aracnid

"He who would trade security for money is a smart man"

Tony Blair after having subcontracted Anti-Terrorism to Al Queda.

Very funny.

[Analytical Engine]

"There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet" Charles V al-Habsburg of the Holy Roman Sultanate...

[Sgt Detritus]

We kicked seven shades of s*** out of them


Duke of Wellington, after the Battle of Waterloo

[Analytical Engine]

Originally Posted by Sgt Detritus

We kicked seven shades of s*** out of them


Duke of Wellington, after the Battle of Waterloo

Sounds more like Patton.

[Fellatio Nelson]

"Ich bin such a twat!"

- Exclaimed JFK as he bent down to pick up the keys that had fallen out of his trouser pocket, thereby narrowly missing assassination.

[Berra]

"...and the obligation to keep and bear arms."
2nd Ammendment, US Constitution

[Wendell]

"Ein Volk, Ein Welt, Ein Zentralkomitee!"
-Adolph Hitler, General-Secretary of the Union of Arbeiterrat Socialist Republics, addressing a worker's rally on May Day in Vienna.

[Fenwick]

"I will never surrender, Tim." - Jefferson Davis

Who's Tim?

It looks like Tim was the last person to speak with the President before he was mysteriously shot.

[LordInsane]

Originally Posted by Wendell

"Ein Volk, Ein Welt, Ein Zentralkomitee!"
-Adolph Hitler, General-Secretary of the Union of Arbeiterrat Socialist Republics, addressing a worker's rally on May Day in Vienna.

Worker's Council Sozialistrepubliken?