Richard Harris Barham quotes

“Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.”
-- Richard Harris Barham

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“The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.”
-- Richard Harris Barham

Source : 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

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“Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.”
-- Richard Harris Barham

Source : Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

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“I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.”
-- Richard Harris Barham

Source : Richard Harris Barham (2013). “The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2”, p.142, SpringStreet Books, LLC

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“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”
-- Richard Harris Barham

Source : Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357

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“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”

“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

“One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!”

“Let us honor the Holy Ghost.”

“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”

“I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me”

“Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.”

“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”

Source : Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”

“All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.”