Famous quotes containing the words commander, carrion and/or stated:
“Every commander is alone.”
—Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)
“Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
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