To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of Sigmund Freud', stanza17.

Celuy vit seulement, lequel vit aujourdhuy. Only the person who lives for today lives at all.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Les Regrets, no.65.

I am more stupid about some things than about others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well- rounded person.

-Bellow, Saul
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.2.

If the dullest person in the world would only put down sincerely what he or she thought about his or her life, about work and love, religion and emotion, it would be a fascinating document.

-Benson, A(rthur) C(hristopher)
  'From  A College Window'.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

-Carlyle,Jane Baillie ne¤  e Jane Baillie Welsh
  Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 2 May.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Heretics, ch.3.

Le temps et le monde et la personne ne se rencontrent qu'une seule fois. Time, the world and the person only encounter one another once.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Dedans.

Iam well awarethat Iam theumblest person going† My mother is likewise a very umble person.We live in a numble abode.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.16.

Ce n'est que par la me¤  moire que nous sommes un me"  me individu pour les autres et pour nous-me"  mes. Il ne me reste peut-e"  tre pas, a'   l'a"  ge quej'ai, une seule mole¤  cule du corps que j'apportai en naissant. It is only in memory that we are the same person for others and for ourselves. At the age I am now, there is probably not a single molecule of my body that I had when born.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique.

'My idea of an agreeable person,'said Hugo Bohun,'is a person who agrees with me.'

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Lothair, ch.35.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Considerations by the Way'.

If I could explain it to the average person,I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)
  In People Magazine, 22  Jul.

   You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
  The Good Soldier, pt.3, ch.4.

Man kann sich seinenVater nicht w a« hlen. A person cannot choose his father.

-Frisch, Max Rudolph
Andorra,10.

   A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetöand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 6  Jun.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  The Face of War, introduction.

Ich sei nicht nur als Autor, sondern auch als Mann betroffen.Und zwar irgendwie schuldhaft. I am moved, not onlyas an author, but as a person. And feel somehow guilty.

-Grass, Gu«  nter Wilhelm
  Der Butt (translated as The Flounder,1978).

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago cameto the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.

-Henry VIII
   Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.

There is no such thing as an unmusical person.

-Henze, Hans Werner
  'Does Music Have to Be Political?'