John Gibson Lockhart

Quotes

• “It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up among us. This school has not, I believe, as yet received any name; but if I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may henceforth be referred to by the designation of The Cockney School.”
• “It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr. John, back to "plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," &c. But, for Heaven's sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.”
• “It is an old beliefThat on some solemn shoreBeyond the sphere of griefDear friends shall meet once more.”
• “Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin –Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.”
• “Here lies the peerless paper lord, Lord Peter,Who broke the laws of God and man, and metre.”

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