Quotes of Laureate - somelinesforyou

“ LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. ”

- Cicero

“ Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. ”

- Philip Howard

“ Dodgiest car - hard to choose between the Trabant and a Model T previously owned by Laurel and Hardy. ”

- Nick Mason

“ SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. Once I seen a human ruin In an elevator-well, And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had fell… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than forgive or gain by love and information … Force may subdue, but love gains. And one that forgives first wins the laurel. ”

- William Penn

“ I was and am still, a big fan of Laurel and Hardy. I was especially taken with Ollie. It was such a complex character. He played this total bully, coward and was utterly pretentious but you loved him all the same. ”

- Paul Putner
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