Bennett

Famous quotes containing the word bennett:

“You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.”
—Charles Bennett (b.1899)

“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts—constantly persisted in—by the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“There was a young man of Montrose
Who had pockets in none of his clothes.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)