Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin –
Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.


"Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn" (1842), line 19; cited from R. Shelton Mackenzie (ed.) The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn (New York: Redfield, 1857) p. cviii.

John Gibson Lockhart Quotes

Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.

Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.

Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.

Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.