Frederick Locker-Lampson

Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters and poet.

Quotes

 * And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny, Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show You were an exceedingly small pickaninny, Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.
 * The old Cradle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * "Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
 * Vanity Fair; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * What an arm—what a waist For an arm!
 * To My Grandmother; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,— And almost as delightful.
 * The Jester's Plea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,— I follow, follow still: But I  Shall never see her face.
 * The Unrealized Ideal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 195.