If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say ... “Sweet Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. A Diary, ch. 10, eds. H. Allingham and D. Radford (1907).
Carlyle, referring to biographers, was quoted by poet and diarist William Allingham in a journal entry for Dec. 28, 1868.
