"This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no……" — Stevie Smith
"This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind."
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31 Quotes by Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith has 31 quotes on this site.
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Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been…
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows.…
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to…
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my…
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The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just…
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my…
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on…
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed…
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention…
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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