C. J. Dennis Quotes

: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder.

Love is a gamble, an' there ain't no certs.

But the snobs are ever with us, snobs of art, of place, of pelf.
And, reading this, I rather think I might be one myself.

Oh, to be in England Now that Summer’s there!
For who plays the Game in England Is each morning well aware
That the cricket-pitch is water-logged,
And the in-field’s wet and the out-field’s bogged: For it’s surely raining, anyhow, In England—now!

Farmer! That's me! Wiv this 'ere strong right 'and I've gripped the plough; and blistered jist a treat.
Doreen an' me 'as gone upon the land. Yours truly fer the burden an' the 'eat!

To mock the tree-lined highways of our dreaming, Winding to pleasant plains and sunlit hills,
Loud-speakers yet may blare 'mid billboards screaming To hymn the praise of someone’s priceless pills.

I disapprove of people who moot things.

Women is strange. You take my tip; I’m wise. I know enough to know I'll never know
The ’uman female mind ...

It’s bad enough to be a bloke without one reel close friend;
But when your dog gives you the bird it’s pretty near the end.

Willy! O 'ell! 'Ere wus a flamin' pill! A moniker that alwus makes me ill.
"If it's the same to you, mum," I replies "I answer quicker to the name of Bill."

Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' day be day; Pausin' a minute in the barmy strife
To find that 'elpin' others on the way Is gold coined fer your profit—sich is life.

Sittin' at ev'nin' in this sunset-land,
Wiv 'Er in all the World to 'old me 'and, A son, to bear me name when I am gone. ... Livin' an' lovin'—so life mooches on.

They say the whole world’s down and out; But here’s what I can’t see:
If every land, beyond all doubt,
In all the earth is up the spout— Then who's the mortgagee?

Professional gardeners are usually rather earthy uncommunicative men with a deliberate manner, a slight stoop and the dull-fish-like eye of the confirmed pessimist.

"Wot's in a name?" she sez. 'Struth, I dunno.
Billo is just as good as Romeo.