Edmund Clerihew Bentley Short Quotes

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Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

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She had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.

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Professor Dewar
Is a better man than you are,
None of you asses
Can condense gases.
Of James Dewar

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Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.

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Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

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Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.

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George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.

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Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

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What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

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The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.

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Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St Paul's.'

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It was a weakness of Voltaire's
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.

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Sir James Jeans
Always says what he means
He is really perfectly serious
About the Universe being Mysterious.

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It looked bad when the Duke of Fife
Left off using a knife;
But people began to talk
When he left off using a fork.

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When their lordships asked Bacon
How many bribes he had taken
He had at least the grace
To get very red in the face.

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The only occasion when Comte
Is known to have romped
Was when the multitude roared 'Vive
La Philosophie Positive!'
Of Auguste Comte

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And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.

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That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

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John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."

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'I quite realized,' said Columbus,
'That the Earth was not a rhombus,
But I a little annoyed
To find it an oblate spheroid.'

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