Famous quotes containing the words rose and/or stated:
“When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.”
—Ernestine L. Rose (1810–1892)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)