James Smith Quotes

James Smith was an English writer. He is best known as co-author of the Rejected Addresses, with his younger brother Horace.



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✵ 10. February 1775 – 24. December 1839
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Famous James Smith Quotes

“Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait.”

The Theatre, reported under James Smith in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“No Drury Lane for you to-day.”

Rejected Addresses, "The Baby's Début", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I saw them go: one horse was blind,
The tails of both hung down behind,
Their shoes were on their feet.”

Rejected Addresses, "The Baby's Début", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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