Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Dreading that climax of all human ills
The inflammation of his weekly bills.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“There was a young man of Montrose
Who had pockets in none of his clothes.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)