History Quotes / BellisariosMaxim

-->--'''Literature/HuckleberryFinn intro'''[[note]]Of course, Creator/MarkTwain was just being sarcastic (which was his signature style); Finn is probably his best work, especially the moral part[[/note]]

->''"I've just received a spiritual message from the developers: 'Don't think to hard about it. '"''

->''"...but still, if we are to believe the history of Literature/DonQuixote that has come out here lately with general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you chose."''
->''"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is imaginary or not imaginary; '''these are things the proof of which must not be pushed to extreme lengths.''' I have not begotten nor given birth to my lady, though I behold her as she needs must be, a lady who contains in herself all the qualities to make her famous throughout the world, beautiful without blemish, dignified without haughtiness, tender and yet modest, gracious from courtesy and courteous from good breeding, and lastly, of exalted lineage, because beauty shines forth and excels with a higher degree of perfection upon good blood than in the fair of lowly birth."''
-->--'''Literature/DonQuixote, Part II, Chapter XXXII'''[[note]]Notice that Don Quixote himself, not Cervantes, formulates this law three hundred years before Belisario[[/note]]

-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}''' to '''ComicBook/SpiderMan''', ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool #13''

-->'''Literature/HuckleberryFinn intro'''[[note]]Of course, Creator/MarkTwain was just being sarcastic (which was his signature style); Finn is probably his best work, especially the moral part[[/note]]

-->'''Literature/DonQuixote, Part II, Chapter XXXII'''[[note]]Notice that Don Quixote himself, not Cervantes, formulates this law three hundred years before Belisario[[/note]]

-->Gregory Cromwell in ''Literature/WolfHall'' regarding ''Literature/HistoriaRegumBritanniae'' (and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall probably also Hilary Mantel regarding the novel]])

-->Uther Lightbringer in the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' tutorial back in V1.0, when Jim Raynor is trying to get a handle on the nonsensical premise he's found himself in.

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->“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

-->'''HuckleberryFinn intro'''[[note]]Of course, MarkTwain was just being sarcastic (which was his signature style); Finn is probably his best work, especially the moral part[[/note]]

-->'''HuckleberryFinn intro''' [[hottip:*:Of course, MarkTwain was just being sarcastic (which was his signature style); Finn is probably his best work, especially the moral part.]]

->''"...but still, if we are to believe the history of DonQuixote that has come out here lately with general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you chose."''

-->'''DonQuixote, Part II, Chapter XXXII''' [[hottip:*:Notice that DonQuixote himself, not Cervantes, formulates this law three hundred years before Belisario.]]

->''"...but still, if we are to believe the history of DonQuixote that has come out here lately with general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you chose."
->''"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is imaginary or not imaginary; '''these are things the proof of which must not be pushed to extreme lengths.''' I have not begotten nor given birth to my lady, though I behold her as she needs must be, a lady who contains in herself all the qualities to make her famous throughout the world, beautiful without blemish, dignified without haughtiness, tender and yet modest, gracious from courtesy and courteous from good breeding, and lastly, of exalted lineage, because beauty shines forth and excels with a higher degree of perfection upon good blood than in the fair of lowly birth."

-->'''Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XXXII''' [[hottip:*:Notice that DonQuixote himself, not Cervantes, formulates this law three hundred years before Belisario.]]

-->--'''[[WebOriginal/ThingsOfInterest Sam Hughes]]''', [[http://qntm.org/timeline Futurama timeline]]; contrast MoffsLaw

-->-- '''StevenMoffat''' [[http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/3085690.html expounds upon his theory of time travel.]]

-->--'''[[ThingsOfInterest Sam Hughes]]''', [[http://qntm.org/timeline Futurama timeline]]; contrast MoffsLaw

-->--'''[[ThingsOfInterest Sam Hughes]]''', [[http://qntm.org/timeline Futurama timeline]]; contrast [=~Moff’s Law~=]

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