“The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.”

"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)

The Osbournes television show

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Thalia, to the Bishop, after being found servicing Pocket
Fool (2009)

Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), p. 257: Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers

Pt. II, Ch. 13 Discovery of Lake Huron
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

As quoted in The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996) by Don Michael Randel
Context: Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little — the book of Nature.

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.