Bret Harte Elementary

Famous quotes containing the words bret harte, bret, harte and/or elementary:

    “Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide
    Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
    And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Which I wish to remark—
    And my language is plain—
    That for ways that are dark
    And for tricks that are vain,
    The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
    Which the same I would rise to explain.”
    —Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Listen. We converse as we live—by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)