Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

    “Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “Three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Saturdays.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “You call it passion,
    Consideration, generosity;
    But it was all deceit, and flattery
    To win a woman in her own despite,
    For love is war, and there is hatred in it....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)