| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 3155 |
| QUOTATION: | Don’t pity me now,
Don’t pity me never;
I’m going to do nothing
For ever and ever. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Agate (1877–1947), British drama critic. A “charwoman’s epitaph,” Ego (March 14, 1933).
She was a “self-deceiver,” Agate claimed. “At least I will lay odds that anybody meeting her in Heaven will find her scrubbing marble and dusting porphyry with a new-born gleam in her old eye.” |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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