shop quotes

Well you know,Chris, we've got to give them something Genesis and I think we'll give them this talking shop in Strasbourgthe Council of Europe.

- Ernest Bevin
  Comment to Christopher Mayhew. Quoted in Michael Charlton The Price of Victory (1983).

This ain't the shop for justice.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^9  The  Artful Dodger. Oliver Twist, ch.43.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.

- Samuel Foote
Responding to a challenge from the actor Charles Macklin that there was no speech he could not repeat from memory after just one hearing. Macklin had to acknowledge defeat. Foote's phrases 'no soap'and 'the grand Panjandrum' became widely adopted. Quoted in Maria Edgeworth Harry and Lucy (1825), vol.2.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
^8  'The Circus Animals' Desertion', part 3, l.6^8. Collected in Last Poems (1939).