Treacle Quotes

• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream   Years   Giving  

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

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  John Gay

  Sweet   Lost   Treacle  

  Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Arthur Murphy, George Farquhar, Hannah Cowley (1815). “Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy”

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• I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

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  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Believe   Smell   Hands  

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

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  John Keats

  Love   Wings   Independence  

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.198

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• Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

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  John Gay

  Sweet   Gun   Men  

  John Gay (1835). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.32

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• I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.

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  Lore Sjoberg

  Party   People   Political  

  "Alt Text: Join the Inactivist Party and Make Your Indifference Heard" by Lore Sjoberg, www.wired.com. May 27, 2011.

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