Quotation
In his 1908 book, Dad in Politics, Davis satirises political life in the opening sentence:
| “ | Smith, the member for our district, died one day, and we forgot all about him the next. Not that a politician is ever remembered much after he dies, but Smith had been a blind, bigoted, old Tory, and was better dead. Politicians are mostly better dead, so far as other people and their country is concerned … | ” |
This quotation is often used to illustrate the cynicism of Australians towards the political class. FitzHenry notes that Davis's satirical depiction of individual members of the Queensland Parliament was so close to reality that he was 'almost called to the Bar'
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Famous quotes containing the word quotation:
“In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)