brown quotes

  'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

- Donald Barthelme
  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural  Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

'Tis the voice of the lobster; I heard him declare, 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.10,'The Lobster- Quadrille'.

England isnot ruined becausesinewy brownmenfroma distant colony sometimes hit a ball further and oftener than our men do.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).