Harold Monro quote: "When the tea is brought at five o'clock<br />And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,<br />The little black cat with bright green eyes<br />Is suddenly purring there."

O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
HAROLD MONRO

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little bl...
HAROLD MONRO

The white saucer like some full moon descends
At last from the clouds of the table above;
...
HAROLD MONRO

The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.
HAROLD MONRO

Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, gobl...
HAROLD MONRO

Feast of James the Apostle Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught ...
CLAXTON MONRO

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON

A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR

I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL

My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS

Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS

The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE

Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I w...
HAROLD LARWOOD

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
HAROLD LARWOOD

Cricket was my reason for living.
HAROLD LARWOOD

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which th...
HAROLD HAMM

Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. A...
HAROLD HAMM

Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and thi...
HAROLD HAMM

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
HAROLD HAMM

A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
HAROLD HAMM

The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ...
HAROLD HAMM

I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car...
HAROLD HAMM

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
HAROLD HAMM

I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi...
HAROLD HAMM

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM

President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM

I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM

No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
HAROLD HAMM

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start...
HAROLD HAMM

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS

I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD

I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions t...
HAROLD BUDD

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
HAROLD BUDD

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined ped...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think o...
HAROLD BRODKEY

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyon...
HAROLD BRODKEY

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone i...
HAROLD BRODKEY

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russ...
HAROLD BRODKEY

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
HAROLD BRODKEY

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th...
HAROLD BRODKEY

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the acc...
HAROLD BRODKEY

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at pe...
HAROLD BRODKEY

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a ...
HAROLD BRODKEY

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
HAROLD BRODKEY

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
HAROLD BRODKEY

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM

Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD

My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN

According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire...
HAROLD BLOOM

When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

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When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Harold Monro

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When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little black cat with bright green eyesIs suddenly purring there.

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When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.