Culture
The song has led an unusually varied life particularly in the field of popular culture. Some of the places where the song/poem is mentioned or quoted are:
- The Sheik, a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino, based on the novel The Sheik by Edith Maude Hull.
- Ford Madox Ford's Ford's novel Parade's End (1924-1928).
- Jack Conroy's novel A World to Win (1935)
- The film This Happy Breed (1944) based on Noël Coward's stage play (1939).
- The film Hers to Hold sung by Deanna Durbin (1943)
- Henry Miller's Sexus (1949)
- "Casanova's Chinese Restaurant", (1960) the fifth volume of Anthony Powell's novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time".
- Gilbert Sorrentino's novel Aberration of Starlight (1980)
- A ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali (1997)
- Title of a short story by Anne Enright in her 2008 book "Yesterday's Weather".
- P.G. Wodehouse's Ring for Jeeves, quoted by captain Biggar
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)