English Song Originally

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

    But it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they
    have a good thing, to make it too common.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    you see, we live in a cold climate
    and are not permitted to kiss on the street
    so I made up a song that wasn’t true.
    I made up a song called Marriage.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)