Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- ‘Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.’
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.
I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it.
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
I keep six honest serving men.
Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
As the dawn comes up like thunder.
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there’s nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing ‘Oh how wonderful’ and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.