It is an old saying in the town that "most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney ...of a neighbor's house."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old man from Darjeeling Who got on a bus bound for Ealing.... It said at the door, "Please don't spit on the floor," So he carefully spat on the ceiling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose the fact is that no friendship can stand the breakfast test.... Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that... hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair, and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and be...hind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die? Basil: I don't know.... Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books? If they don't tell you that, what the hell do they tell you? Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours. I spit on their agony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the green hells of the sea Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;... On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl, Splashed with a splended sickness, the sickness of the pearl;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a... kind of respect for the great criminal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »