Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Famous Quotes by Charles Stuart Calverley
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“To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.”
Matrimony Quotes
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
“I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.”
Matrimony Quotes
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”
Songs Quotes
Source: Changed
“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”
Ballads Quotes
Source: Ballad
“I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.”
Home Quotes
Source: In the Gloaming
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