bananas quotes

   Yes,We Have No Bananas.

-Tad (Thomas Aloysius) Dorgan
  Cartoon caption, later used as the title of a song by Irving Conn and Frank Silver (1923) and as an advertising slogan for Elders and Fyffes, British banana importers.

A banana republic.

- Paul John Keating
  On  Australia's balance-of-payments crisis and cycle of recession. Radio broadcast, Radio 2GB, Sydney,14 May.

I despair of the Republic!† What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  On the US. Letter to Sara Norton,19 Aug.