Jerry Theatrical Short

Famous quotes containing the words jerry, theatrical and/or short:

    “Hell and damnation,
    life is such fun
    with a ragged greatcoat
    and a Jerry gun!”
    —Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

    “A Man who always acts in the Severity of Wisdom, or the Haughtiness of Quality, seems to move in a personated Part: It looks too Constrained and Theatrical for a Man to be always in that Character which distinguishes him from others.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    “... until the shopkeeper plants his boot in our eyes,
    and unties our bone and is finished with the case,
    and turns to the next customer, forgetting our face
    or how we knelt at the yellow bulb with sighs
    like moth wings for a short while in a small place.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)