Richard Harris Barham Quotes

• Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Funny, Halloween, Ghost

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• The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Dream, Book, Knights

  'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

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• I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Boys, Men, Littles

  Richard Harris Barham (2013). “The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2”, p.142, SpringStreet Books, LLC

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• Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Long, Thrice, Billing

  Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

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• Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Father, Food, Cooking

  Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357

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