John Thompson Parker

Famous quotes containing the words john, thompson and/or parker:

    “How soon I may ride the whole world about;
    And at the third question thou must not shrink,
    But tell me here truly what I do think.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)