The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Aretino

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. Attributed to DUKE OF WELLINGTON, C. upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament. Inn-Keeping. He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!-holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which of themselves turn round and round!— filed under Occupations-Hatters
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