
Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories
Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories
“2018. He set my House afire, only to roast his Eggs.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Pray don't burn my House to roast your Eggs.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!”
The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
quote from an extract of 'Barbara Hepworth – the Sculptor carves because he must, The Studio, London, vol. 104, December 1932, p. 332
1932 - 1946