Famous quotes containing the words english and/or lyric:
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)