The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon

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Topic

Overcompensating

Speaker

Samuel Spade

Actor

Humphrey Bogart

Source

The Maltese Falcon

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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Another quote from the 1940s

What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Hell
Speaker
Edward

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Cocktail Party
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

Another quote from 1941

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Topic
The British people World War II
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.