Common Bawdy House

Famous quotes containing the words common, bawdy and/or house:

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If bawdy talk offend you, we’ll have very little of it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)