Thompson Russell Smith

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, russell and/or smith:

    “I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
    I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
    I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
    Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears
    I hid from Him, and under running laughter.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    ““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
    That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
    A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
    So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
    Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “This place is the longest running farce in the West End.”
    —Cyril Smith (b. 1928)