gallery quotes

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but atinkling cymbal, wherethere isno love. See Bible121:9.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. See Hazlitt 388:80.

-1st Baron
  'Hallam's Constitutional History' in the Edinburgh Review, Sep.

He was like a man who takes a machine-gun to a shooting gallery. Everybody falls flat on his face, the proprietor at once takes to the hills, and when you cautiously peep up, you find that he has wrecked the place but got three perfect bull's-eyes.

- Sean O'Faolain
On Frank O'Connor (pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan), attributed.

You think this cruel? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter,Codrus! round thee break, Thou unconcerned canst hear the mighty crack. Pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world.

- Alexander Pope
  'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.83^8.