Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:
“Mustnt grumble was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair. What was the use? But Americans did nothing but grumble! Americans also boasted. I do some pretty incredible things was not an English expression. Im fairly keen was not American. Americans were showoffsit was part of our innocencewe often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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