Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sunday ShoutOuts

Suffolk used to worship Sunday, not God.
-Blythe, Ronald George
Don't let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after† Let usbe verystrangeandwell-bred: Let usbe asstrangeasif wehad beenmarried a great while, and aswell-bred as if we were not married at all.
-Congreve,William
  
   A duller spectaclethis earth of ourshas not toshow than a rainy Sunday in London.
-Depp,Johnny

Here of a Sunday morning My love and I would lie, And see the coloured counties, And hear the larks so high About us in the sky.
-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
 
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sundaymorning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
-McCullers, (Lula) Carson ne¤  e Smith
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.Like whentheysay 'Asit wasin the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end'.
-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
 
   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.
-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  
Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.
-Truman, Harry S
  

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