Frederick Locker-Lampson quotes
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“The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.”
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : 'The Jester's Plea' (1868)
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“I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.”
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1895). “My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants”
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“Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.”
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“Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.”
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.32
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“Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.”
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188
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“I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.”
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”
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“It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.”
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”
Source : Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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