“If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it;
A chield's aman you takin' notes,
And faith he'll prent it.”
On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland, st. 1 (1793)
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“I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.”
German's exasperation with the perception of fellow composer Coates imitating his own style, in a letter to his sister Rachel (4 January, 1925)
“Lying in my tent
I can hear your cry
Echoing round the mountainside
You sound lonely”
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
“There is a bird who by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.”
The Jackdaw (translation from Vincent Bourne).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?"
"I left off struggling.”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”
The comic part of the character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing; or at least be occasionally abundant in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own mother-tongue, and has read little in that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears to me quite indispensable for the person who would do any justice to your clergyman; and I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent (1815-12-11) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.”
Source: The Red Pyramid