William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of Victorian era.
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“World, you are beautifully drest.”
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“World, you are beautifully drest.”
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)
“You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot!
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!””
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)