Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“You dont want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I dont want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
“If you address a ghost as Thing!
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying
And then youre sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“His work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a representative British artist.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)