Shay

“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

“Quarks are so weird that they have been referred to as “The dreams that stuff is made from,” and they are way
beyond the scope of this book.”
― Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics

“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

“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