Jack quotes

It's 'Damn you, JackI'm all right!' with you chaps.

- Sir David Bone
  The Brassbounder, ch.3.

Story is just just deserts†man in the crucible like jack in the box.

- Stanley Lawrence Elkin
  'The Future of the Novel', in the NewYork Times,17 Feb.

   Iamall atonce what Christ is, sincehewaswhat Iam, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire'.

Put your brilliant mind to work for†dresses for public appearances†that I would wear if Jack were President of France.

-Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne  e Bouvier Onassis
  Letter to Oleg Cassini,13 Dec. Quoted in Oleg Cassini In My Fashion (1987).

You worked together for the finest things in the finest years† Later on when a series of disastrous Presidents and Prime Ministers†will have botched up everythingpeople will say 'Do you remember those dayshow perfect they were?' The days of you and Jack.

-Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne  e Bouvier Onassis
   To Harold Macmillan, 31  Jan.

I cast only one votefor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.

-Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne  e Bouvier Onassis
On the1960 elections. Quoted in  Arthur M Schlesinger  Jr A  Thousand Days (1965).

'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'The General'.

Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! For three wild lads were we, brave boys, And three wild lads were we; Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Guy Mannering, ch.34.

: I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack?† No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations† I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  JACKGWENDOLEN1895  The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.