English Prose

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or prose:

    “English Bob: What I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.
    Little Bill Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. ‘Til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.”
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)

    “I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;Mpoetry = the best words in the best order.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)