Famous quotes containing the words clown, bad and/or dub:
“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Whom do we dub as Gentleman? The
Knave, the fool, the brute
If they but own full tithe of gold, and
Wear a courtly suit.”
—Eliza Cook (18181889)
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