
"Ulysses," lines 16–20, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
Poems
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
"Ulysses," lines 16–20, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
Poems
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.”
Variant: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Source: The Dharma Bums
Fern Britton Meets John Barrowman BBC 2012
Source: Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by Roger Fulfold (1964), p. 254. Also quoted in the article "Queen Victoria's Not So Victorian Writings" http://www.victoriana.com/doors/queenvictoria.htm by Heather Palmer (1997).
“Shall we indict one man for making a fool of another?”
Reg. v. Jones (1703), 2 Raym. 1013.
“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”
Advice given to an aspiring writer.
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