Sofa Quotes
More Sofa Quotes
It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself. We fainted alternately on the sofa.
jane austen— 1790 Love and Freindship,'Letter the 8th'.
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten ) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
asger jorn— As quoted in On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972 (1989), edited by Elisabeth Sussman, p. 142
Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished sofa last.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.1,'The Sofa', l.86-8.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
On a sofa upholstered in panther skin Mona did researches in original sin.
william plomer— 1960 'Mews Flat Mona'.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
mason cooley— City Aphorisms, Third Selection (1986)
O'er seas that have no beaches To end their waves upon, I floated with twelve peaches, A sofa and a swan.
mervyn peake— Poem O'er seas that have no beaches
The British male has no interest in women. You could get all your clothes off and lie on the sofa and go "Come and get me baby" and they go, "Wanna cuppa tea?"
alice evans— John Parry article quoting an Evans interview done for The Sunday Times in The Argus July 2002 "Think of it this way"
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, “That were to consider it too curiously.”
Randall Jarrell— “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 64
To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the smallest attention. She had not time for such cares. She was a woman who spent her days in sitting, nicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some long piece of needlework, of little use and no beauty, thinking more of her pug than her children, but very indulgent to the latter when it did not put herself to inconvenience...
— Jane Austen (1902). Mansfield Park. Macmillan, Page 158.
It's amazing how many houses are built with the logistical impossibility of bringing a sofa in.
— Paul Hymers, The New Home Builder, 2nd Edition, p38
