Brass – Quotes

Brass, stay down all

Brass, stay down all summer. Eugene Ormandy

I was ready to

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm. Elton John

Brass shines as fair

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it’s wrong to think I’m a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing – which is not a commercial playwright. I’m not after the brass ring. … Read more

Virtue\\’s a stronger guard

Virtue’s a stronger guard than brass. Edmund Waller

Once let the black

Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship. Frederick Douglass

Your national greatness, swelling

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation … Read more

One bites into the

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? Franz Schubert

Parents can fail to

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward … Read more

Ella\’s supersonic voice followed

Ella’s supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned … Read more