But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead--a dead parent, for example--can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than... the living. It is the question of ghosts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasio...n. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, an...d Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day; But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!... May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer;... May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »