“There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.”
Hymn to the Sea, Part iii, 8, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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English poet, born 1858 1858–1935Related quotes
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“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Puppet Masters
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)
