Try these

 

The quotes:

  1. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
  2. A big, hardboiled city, with no more personality than a paper cup.
  3. Like being savaged by a dead sheep.
  4. Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
  5. No one ever suddenly became depraved.

The utterers or writers:

  • Raymond Chandler, 1949
  • Valentine Blacker, 1856
  • Juvenal, AD 60 to 130
  • James Thurber, 1937
  • Dennis Healey, 1978

Bonus points:

  • Blacker’s was attributed to which civil war leader?
  • Chandler referred to which?
  • Which other MP was he referring to?

3 replies on “Try these”

    • 4. Blacker ▶️ Oliver Cromwell

      My interwebs keeps dropping 😲

      ……

      JH: Interweb dropping … oh no! Drone perhaps? Answers of course correct.

  1. 2. Sounds like Chandler. No idea where he was referring to. So many options….

    ……

    JH: Yes it is … LA.

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