Mustard Gas Burns

Famous quotes containing the words mustard, gas and/or burns:

    Johnson’s conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child’s mouth.
    Hester Lynch Thrale (1739–1821)

    Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    I heard a Negro play.

    Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
    By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
    Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    It burns the thing
    inside it. And that thing
    screams.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)