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C. J. Dennis
31 quotes
“Get a —— move on, Have some —— sense. Learn the —— art of Self de- —— -fence!”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Austra-laise", Chorus, in The Bulletin (12 November 1908)
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Vision", in Jim of the Hills (1919)
“Women is strange. You take my tip; I’m wise. I know enough to know I'll never know The ’uman female mind ...”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Woman's Way", in Rose of Spadgers (1924)
“Of all the gems in this wide world (No matter what their hue be), The one I find most beautiful Is certainly the emerald.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Handwritten, with his autograph, for a girl named Ruby. Quoted in Alec H. Chisholm, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke (1946)
“It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going ", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Alec H. Chisholm, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke (1946)
“: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Alec H. Chisholm, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke (1946)
“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!”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Alec H. Chisholm, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke (1946)
“Now, a woman, she’s a woman. I ’ave fixed that for a cert. They’re jist as like as rows uv peas from ’at to ’em uv skirt. An’ then, they’re all so different, yeh find, before yeh’ve done, The more yeh know uv all uv ’em the less yeh know uv one.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Doreen", in Selected Verse (1950)
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Postscript to Posterity", in Random Verse (1952)
“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?”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Another Economic Riddle", in Random Verse (1952)
“But it must not be thought that I abjure all physical effort. Only the day before yesterday I pulled up a dandelion. Next week I shall probably be busy pulling up the two other dandelions that will inevitably spring up in that place to avenge their brother. Dandelions are like that.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amateur Amateur Gardeners", in Random Verse (1952)
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amateur Amateur Gardeners", in Random Verse (1952)
“For many years it has been my habit to divide gardeners into three classes. These are professional gardeners, professional amateur gardeners, and amateur amateur gardeners.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amateur Amateur Gardeners", in Random Verse (1952)
“You might grow bored with being good; And, furthermore, I think you would.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Furthermore and Moreover", in Random Verse (1952)
“How would I hold a husband? Is it that you’re askin’ me? If it’s needful to hold, that is easily told— Be the scruff of his neck!" said she.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Hold a Husband", in Random Verse (1952)
“I sometimes think stone is too precious truly, Bronze far too permanent for human clods Whom men rush in to celebrate unduly: Immortal stuff is for immortal gods Carved by great artists. Let the celebration Of men be in such stuff as may be pulped; Reserve the rock for glorious inspiration: Venus to pose, to sculpt.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pulped for Posterity", in Random Verse (1952)
“I disapprove of people who moot things.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Round with Kipling", in Random Verse (1952)
“Of all the poetry I've read I’ve never yet seen one (he said) That couldn’t be, far as it goes, Much better written out in prose. It’s what they eat, I often think; Or, yet more likely, what they drink. Aw, poets! All the tribe, by heck, Give me a swift pain in the neck.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poets", in Random Verse (1952)
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Songs of Snobs", in Random Verse (1952)
“Someone has said From the day we draw breath Until life be sped Two things are certain: Taxes and death. From the rise of the curtain, On life's dreary round, As hope wanes or waxes, Man ever found Two things are certain: Taxes and death— Especially taxes.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taxes", in Random Verse (1952)
“Wot's in a name?" she sez. 'Struth, I dunno. Billo is just as good as Romeo.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is a gamble, an' there ain't no certs.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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!”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We done poor Muvver proud when she went out— A slap-up send-orf, trimmed wiv tears an' crape.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A boy!" she sez. "An' bofe is doin' well!" I drops into a chair, an' jist sez—"'Ell!" It was a pray'r. I feels bofe crook an' glad. ... An' that's the strength of bein' made a dad.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yeh live, yeh love, yeh learn; an' when yeh come To square the ledger in some thortful hour, The everlastin' answer to the sum Must allus be, "Where's sense in gittin' sour?”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends, Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' to fergive The deeds an' words of some un'appy bloke Who's missed the bus—so 'ave I come to live, An' take the 'ole mad world as 'arf a joke.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source