English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “I made my song a coat
    Covered with embroideries
    Out of old mythologies”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.”
    —George Mikes (b. 1912)