Swinburne is just emptiness to me as he gets older, and themoremaddening ashegoes onexploiting a heavenly gift. I wish he had just shut up, like Coleridge, and left us surmising wonders.

-Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'
Quoted in A L Rowse Quiller-Couch: a Portrait of 'Q' (1988).

Washington isa sieve†it was virtually impossibletofind out who was doing the leaking and shut them up.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  Depositionon the Iran^Contra arms sales. In the NewYork Times, 23 Feb.