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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Famous quotes containing the words brighty rands, william, brighty and/or rands:
“World, you are beautifully drest.”
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)
“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“World, you are beautifully drest.”
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)
“you are so great, and I am so small,
I hardly can think of you, World, at all;”
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)