Edward Lear Quotes

And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska’s Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!

When boats or ships came near him He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled a bell.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, ‘Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are’.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

They called aloud ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! We don’t care a fig!’

Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea.

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! – Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nest in my beard!’