Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XVI: "The Last Straw"
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Trent's Last Case
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Own Case
Edmund Clerihew BentleyFamous Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
“Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?”
7. "The Old-fashioned Apache"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
11. "The Unknown Peer"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes about life
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter III: "Breakfast"
3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
"Bacon", in Baseless Biography (1939), p. 6.
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
“[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.”
12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
“George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.”
Clerihews: More Biography (1929)
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter I: "Bad News"
Source: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XV: "Double Cunning"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
“Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.”
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
“Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.”
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
“Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.”
Clerihews: More Biography (1929)