"money takes flight when might conquers right"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/7/2013 02:12 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Isn't the simple answer that this combination of two traditional
>phrases was fabricated by the trio that wrote the screenplay of the
>movie?
>DanG

I had hoped not, but it may be true.  I looked at
one dictionary of proverbs today, and didn't find it.

Joel



>On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 1/7/2013 10:19 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> >>A website with movie subtitle (or caption) information suggests that a
> >>variant of the saying with the word "fright" was used in the dialog of
> >>Ivanhoe. Of course, captions are sometimes inaccurate.
> >
> > True, although "fright" has about 56 hits, versus
> > "money takes *flight*" + "might conquers right"
> > which yields only a hapax legomenon:
> >
> > "Apr 19, 2012 ­ To quote a line from one of my
> > favorite movies "When might conquers right, money
> > takes flight." From Ivanhoe 1952. All been posted before by ..."
> > http://hotcopper.co.nz/post_single.asp?fid=1&tid=1721404&msgid=9965717
> >
> > I can't swear whether I heard "flight" or "fright".  (Either would serve.)
> >
> > But still, did the saying appear earlier than in the movie?
> >
> http://www.docstoc.com/docs/80908184/February-16_-2007-Quote-of-the-day-_quotMoney-takes-fright-when-might
> > attributes the "fright" formulation to Scott and
> > Ivanhoe, but I did not find it in Gutenberg's copy.
> >
> > Joel
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