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Quotes from Clerihews: Biography for Beginners — Edmund Clerihew Bentley

1875–1956 England

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What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

It was a weakness of Voltaire's
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Clerihew Bentley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.