Edward Lear Quotes

• And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

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• He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska’s Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!

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• When boats or ships came near him He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled a bell.

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• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

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• The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, ‘Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are’.

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• The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

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• And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

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• They called aloud ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! We don’t care a fig!’

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• Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

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• They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea.

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• There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! – Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nest in my beard!’

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Edward Lear (11)

Birth:	12th May, 1812
Death:	29th January, 1888
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Illustrator, Poet

About

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.

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