Quotes by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

Insane

Music

Roaring

And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men’s noziz, – You’d fall upon your back and scream – ‘” Lawk! O criky! it’s a dream!”

Dream

Fall

Men

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

Lovely

Owl

Pigs

And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

Eyelashes

Growing

Teeth

I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift’s Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.

Cutting

Knowledge

Science

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Conditions

Oysters

Said

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.

Baby

Doors

People

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

Jugs

Life

Two

It takes a long time to make a painter – even with a good artist’s education – but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

Artist

Jobs

Long

It’s a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

Facts

Toes

World

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Quotes by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men’s noziz, – You’d fall upon your back and scream – ‘” Lawk! O criky! it’s a dream!”

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

It takes a long time to make a painter – even with a good artist’s education – but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

It’s a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

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