Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:
“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
—Norman Douglas (18681952)
“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“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 (16941773)
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