"Kitty: Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur. Lady Bab: Then you have an immense pleasure to come."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."

"Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to p…"

"Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm. When Athens had decaye…"

"In The Waste Land Mr. Eliot has shown that he can at moments write real blank verse; but that is all. For the rest he…"

"My dream is of a British statesman who could say to his countrymen: "You are sick of war, weary of entanglements. The…"

"Considering what was to come, the much-abused 'theft' of the sculptures from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin was an undou…"