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  • Imprisoned inevery fat manathinoneiswildlysignalling to be let out.

    - Cyril Vernon Connolly
      The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

  • As thin and neat as a furled umbrella.

    -Jane Emery
      On Rose Macaulay. Rose Macaulay.

  •    A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cle 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?' Wa-ter-loo House young man!

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
    Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

  • No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

    - Al(fred) Emmanuel Smith
      Election campaign speech, October.

  •    O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

  • Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow room. See Connolly 233:82, Orwell 628:52.

    - Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
      Officers and Gentlemen, interlude.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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