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Richard Harris Barham Quotes

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Richard Harris Barham
Funny, Halloween, Ghost

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Richard Harris Barham
Boys, Men, Littles
Richard Harris Barham (2013). “The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2”, p.142, SpringStreet Books, LLC

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

Richard Harris Barham
Dream, Book, Knights
'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Richard Harris Barham
Long, Thrice, Billing
Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

Richard Harris Barham
Father, Food, Cooking
Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357

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