themaninthegreenshirt reblogged
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Archibald Leach, January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986
themaninthegreenshirt reblogged
“The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms.”
Evelyn Waugh, born 28th October 1903
"Deep roots are untouched by frost."
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Paper Chase [1973] by James Bridges, starring Timothy Bottoms
themaninthegreenshirt reblogged
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. ITS FUNCTION IS TO OBEY ORDERS, NOT ORIGINATE THEM.“
Mark Twain
John Andrew Lawson [b.1951]
Fishing on the Six Mile
Sir Alfred Munnings [1878-1959] painting at Newmarket Racecourse [1951]
themaninthegreenshirt reblogged
“I’m too old-fashioned to use a computer. I’m too old-fashioned to use a quill.”
Christopher Plummer
The birds sang in the wet trees And I listened to them it was a hundred years from now And I was dead and someone else was listening to them. But I was glad I had recorded for him The melancholy.
Patrick Kavanagh, Wet Evening in April
"Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. And that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed."
Evelyn Waugh
Waugh still life composition by Madame Yevonde
"I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort."
Evelyn Waugh
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, pictured with Prince Charles, Badminton Horse Trials [1965]
Edward Foster O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin at Dromoland, Ireland by Slim Aarons [1960]
"It [modernisation] is just another jungle closing in."
Evelyn Waugh