“I agree to pay you that sum provided that I succeed in making the augmentation myself with such matter as you name to me, which I will purchase.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Do let me advise you not to mount her,” he said; “she is a charming creature, but she is too nervous for a lady.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

First you pretend that the Meadows are yours; now, that Guess is better than Squeezer.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[With determination] I must ask you never to talk to me about it!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I must advise you not to publish your tale as long as you are in Vienna, as it places Schrotembach in a very bad light, and you see the empress has to support him in the exercise of his authority.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[not to be put off]—but there is a certain word I must ask you not to use.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

“Tell me about your ninnies, then.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

C Let me ask you not to forget the parallel of the individual and the State; bearing this in mind, and glancing in turn from one to the other of them, will you tell me their respective conditions?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And because you are a man, are you necessarily the man?
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

I guessed then, and ascertained subsequently, that Phil gave Fanny also encouragement to believe all should come right between her and me, and yet not to the further sorrow of her parents.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

And, by the way, pray tell me, are you not that Orlando who makes such a noise in the world?
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Then you could keep hold of the arms of the windlass, and only let the tiller move as much as you needed to, either way——" "By the Great Bull Whale," Job laughed, as he grasped the boy's plan, "I wonder if that wouldn't work!
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Every face was as perfect as a master's picture of the Madonna, and yet no two seemed to possess the same type of beauty.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

“Madam, I must ask you not to interrupt the proceedings,” said the coroner.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

The point of view (and I must ask you not to forget that any such short paper is essentially only a section through a man) was this: I desired to look at the man through his books.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson