Pitt and Dundas's Return to London from Wimbledon, "American Song", from Lyra Urbanica. Compare: "Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations!", "Billy Pitt and the Farmer", from Debrett’s Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, vol. ii. p. 250.
“It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.”
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) British artist
As quoted in "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin" by Karen Wright, in The Telegraph (5 April 2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3672299/Howard-Hodgkin-the-later-greater-Hodgkin.html
“These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.”
Michael Swanwick (1950) American science fiction author
Source: In the Drift (1985), Chapter 4, “Mutagen Fair” (p. 130)
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
On the 2004 Democratic Convention, as quoted in "Banned In Boston: Too Hot for USA Today" in Human Events (26 July 2004).
2004
Context: Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazened with the "F-word" are my opponents. Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
"Legal Fiction" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 37.
The Complete Poems
“There will be vices as long as there are men.”
Vitia erunt donec homines
Book IV, 74; Church-Brodribb translation
Histories (100-110)
