Authors

IRVING, Washington

Washington Irving, Pseudonym: Geoffrey Crayon

3 April 1783 – 28 November 1859

Birthplace: New York, New York

American author, diplomat, biographer & historian

American Authors Diplomats & Statesmen Historians New York (birthplace)

IRVING, Washington

Washington Irving

Authors English German & Prussian Immigrants Religious Leaders, Clergy & Theologians

JAKOBOVITS, Immanuel

IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS – Prussian-English religious leader, “Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth” – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

Authors English Religious Leaders, Clergy & Theologians

JAMES, John Angell

JOHN ANGELL JAMES – English clergyman & author – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

American Authors Diplomats & Statesmen Lawyers, Barristers & Legal Experts New York (birthplace)

KENNEDY, Caroline

CAROLINE KENNEDY – Author Quotes

American Authors Massachusetts (birthplace)

KEROUAC, Jack

JACK KEROUAC – Author Quote Page

Authors Pennsylvania (birthplace) Playwrights & Screenplay Authors

CitationContextSource IDCitation “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” ~Jean Kerr, American author & playwright Mary, Mary (1960) Script, Act I; New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1965 revised ed., p. 33 Context Extended excerpt [Play dialogue - character ‘Oscar’ to ‘Bob’ & ‘Mary’]: “OSCAR. (Crosses U.R.C., eyeing them both.) Please don’t be embarrassed on my account. I’m delighted. I hate a friendly divorce. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and

American Authors Commentators, Critics & Pundits Diplomats & Statesmen Educators German & Prussian Immigrants Nobel Prize Recipients Political Theorists

KISSINGER, Henry

CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” ~Henry Kissinger, German-American statesman “Reflections on Containment” (May/June 1994) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130; online via JSTOR [subscription service] www.jstor.org Misquotes Misquote notes: A number of sources attribute a paraphrased version of Kissinger’s quote to his original Foreign Affairs article: Actual - “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Misquote - “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Source note: The