And meanwhiletime goes about its immemorial workof making everyone look and feel like shit.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  London Fields, ch.2.

You know whatta you do when you shit? Singing, it's the same thing, only up!

-Caruso, Enrico
Quoted in H Brown Whose Little Boy  AreYou? (1983).

As Ihavejust come frommaking my Easterconfessionon Good Fridayand have forgiven all those who trespass against me, I cannot harbour any thoughts of revenge, only contempt for an arrant shit who is bursting with pride, although he is simply being taken for a ride by his women.

-Joseph II
  Of the senior dignitary of the Holy Roman Empire, the Elector- Archbishop of Mainz. Letter to Trauttmansdorff (his representative at Mainz),14  Apr. Quoted in T C  W Blanning Joseph II (1994), p.148.

I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall†plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up, or anything else. If that will save it, save the plan.

-Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)
  From the White House tapes relating to the Watergate scandal, recorded Mar.