Franklin J. Meine > Quotes

“Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely a matter of environment and point of view. (Quoting John Hay)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“Sort of amusing it was—and gay—not like real swearing, 'cause he swore like an angel.
(Quoting Katy Leary)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“Whitman and the Bible are no more obscene than Nature herself—no more obscene than a manure pile, out of which come roses and cherries. (Quoting C.E.S. Wood)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art—a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations.”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing with the statues. These works, which had stood in innocent nakedness for ages, are all figleaved now. Yes, every one of them. Nobody noticed their nakedness before, perhaps; nobody can help noticing it now,
the figleaf makes it so conspicuous. (Quoting Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this stream of unholy adjectives and choice expletives. (Quoting Elizabeth Wallace)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors