Inspector Ghote Hunts The Peacock

Famous quotes containing the words inspector, ghote, hunts and/or peacock:

    “One thing’s sure: Inspector Clay’s dead. Murdered. And somebody’s responsible.”
    —Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)

    “Miss Ghote ... hadn’t the slightest intention of sitting passively by and allowing her neighbor the luxury of placing the teapot of her Episcopalian proclivities on her Baptist trivet.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    “For him nor deep nor hill there is,
    But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.”
    —Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)