Brass Quotes - Page 2

• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Gentleman, Apparel, Scholar

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

  Franz Schubert

  Art, Blow, Horny

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• I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

  Betty Smith

  Fake People, Horse, Wonderful

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• If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

  John Cotton

  Wall, Sea, Liberty

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• Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

  Edmund Waller

  Stronger, Virtue

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226

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• It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

  Julie Andrews

  Enough, Enjoy, Merry Go Round

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• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Dying

  Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

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• Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

  Anais Nin

  Echoes, Giving, Secret

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• A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.335, Chapman and Hall

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• Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Bridges, Cities

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.52, Random House

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• The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Pussy, Golden

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

  Richard Strauss

  Music, Looks

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

  William Watson

  Arrogant, Reeds

  William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

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• I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

  Horace

  Lasting, Monument

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.149, Delphi Classics

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• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Evil, Water

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• The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

  Ouida

  Fall, Heart, Destiny

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.548, Ouida

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• Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

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• Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

  Chanakya

  Rivers, Ashes, Flow

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• White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sunshine, White, Antiques

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• Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
  Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
  But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
  Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Strong, Wall

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 93

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• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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• If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Scent, Way, Tension

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• The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

  Claudia Gray

  Wall, Book, Dark

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• When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Loss, Winning

  William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.130, Springer

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