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Quotes from The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires — William Plomer

1903–1973 South Africa

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'Look who's here!
Do come and help us fiddle while Rome burns!'

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,
And third-rate conversation without one single pause:
Just like a young couple
Between the wars.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

So never say to D'Arcy, 'Be your age!' —
He'd shrivel up at once or turn to stone.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

A rose-red sissy half as old as time.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin:
An abstemious man would reel at her look
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

A pleasant old duffer, nephew to a lord,
Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword,
And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad:
Just like an old liberal
Between the wars.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

A family portrait not too stale to record
Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord,
Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword,
And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad:
Just like an old liberal
Between the wars.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designed
Than other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,
When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,
And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires (1945)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Plomer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.