Quotable Quotes and Poems
1. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; / To-morrow ‘ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year, / Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day; / For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother. I’m to be Queen o’ the May [The May Queen] – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
2. Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [Line written on a window-pane. Queen Elizabeth is said to have written under it. ‘If the heart fails thee, climb not at all’] – Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
3. The King, observing with judicious eyes / The state of both his universities, / To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why? / That learned body wanted loyalty; / To Cambridge books, as very well discerning / How much that loyal body wanted learning. [On George I’s donation of a library to Cambridge.] – Rev. Joseph Trapp (1679-1747)
4. “Begin at the beginning” the King said, gravely, “and go till you come to the end; then stop.”- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 12, 1865.
5. Mr William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894) was in his shirt-sleeves at Hawarden, cutting down a tree, when the royal message was brought to him. ‘Very significant,’ he remarked, when he had read the letter, and went on cutting his tree – Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
6. Learn to think Imperially – Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
7. There was a naughty boy, / And a naughty boy was he, / He ran away to Scotland / The people for to see - / Then he found / That the ground / Was as hard, / That a yard/ Was as long,/ That a song / Was as merry, / That a cherry / Was as red - / That lead / Was as weighty , / That fourscore / Was as eighty, / That a door / Was as wooden / As in England- / So he stood in his shoes / And he wondered. [A song about Myself] - John Keats (1795-1821)
8. He said he considered £40,000 a year a moderate income- such a one as a man might jog on with. [Quoted in the Creevey Papers 13 Sept. 1821]- John Lambton, Earl of Durham 1792-1840.
9. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling of his hat. This shows that he has good principles [1 July] – Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).
10. Shall gods be said to thump the clouds / When clouds are cursed by thunder? [Shall gods be said to thump the clouds?]- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).
11. In any other profession I will be like fish out of water ( Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic leader from Pakistan, when asked what he would be doing if he would not have been in politics).
12. Our playwright may show / in some fifth Act what this wild dram means. [The Play]- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
13. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry A. Kissinger (1923-) Tongue-in-cheek remark. In Patrick Anderson, “The Only Power Kissinger Has is the confidence of the President,” New York Times Magazine, 1 June 1960.
1. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; / To-morrow ‘ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year, / Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day; / For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother. I’m to be Queen o’ the May [The May Queen] – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
2. Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [Line written on a window-pane. Queen Elizabeth is said to have written under it. ‘If the heart fails thee, climb not at all’] – Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
3. The King, observing with judicious eyes / The state of both his universities, / To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why? / That learned body wanted loyalty; / To Cambridge books, as very well discerning / How much that loyal body wanted learning. [On George I’s donation of a library to Cambridge.] – Rev. Joseph Trapp (1679-1747)
4. “Begin at the beginning” the King said, gravely, “and go till you come to the end; then stop.”- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 12, 1865.
5. Mr William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894) was in his shirt-sleeves at Hawarden, cutting down a tree, when the royal message was brought to him. ‘Very significant,’ he remarked, when he had read the letter, and went on cutting his tree – Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
6. Learn to think Imperially – Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
7. There was a naughty boy, / And a naughty boy was he, / He ran away to Scotland / The people for to see - / Then he found / That the ground / Was as hard, / That a yard/ Was as long,/ That a song / Was as merry, / That a cherry / Was as red - / That lead / Was as weighty , / That fourscore / Was as eighty, / That a door / Was as wooden / As in England- / So he stood in his shoes / And he wondered. [A song about Myself] - John Keats (1795-1821)
8. He said he considered £40,000 a year a moderate income- such a one as a man might jog on with. [Quoted in the Creevey Papers 13 Sept. 1821]- John Lambton, Earl of Durham 1792-1840.
9. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling of his hat. This shows that he has good principles [1 July] – Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).
10. Shall gods be said to thump the clouds / When clouds are cursed by thunder? [Shall gods be said to thump the clouds?]- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).
11. In any other profession I will be like fish out of water ( Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic leader from Pakistan, when asked what he would be doing if he would not have been in politics).
12. Our playwright may show / in some fifth Act what this wild dram means. [The Play]- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
13. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry A. Kissinger (1923-) Tongue-in-cheek remark. In Patrick Anderson, “The Only Power Kissinger Has is the confidence of the President,” New York Times Magazine, 1 June 1960.
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