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Bret Harte
14 quotes
“Well, no offense: Thar ain't no sense In gittin' riled.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right, This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And he says that the mountains are fairer For once being held in your thought;”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't be too quick To break bad habits: better stick, Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death,”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But, when the goddess' work is done, The woman's still remains.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each lost day has its patron saint!”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue always meets reward, But quicker when it wears a sword;”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah Sin was his name.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bret Harte
“With the smile that was childlike and bland.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bret Harte
“We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which I wish to remark,— And my language is plain,— That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bret Harte