Who wrote “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses”?
Dorothy Parker, known for her sharp wit, wrote the famous couplet, “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses” in the poem “News Item” in 1926.
Dorothy Parker, known for her sharp wit, wrote the famous couplet, “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses” in the poem “News Item” in 1926.
Subtle is the name of the shady character in the 1610 play The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. He works with two other unsavory characters, Face (a.k.a. Jeremy) and Dol Common.
Alexander Pope’s expression of charity, “To err is human, to forgive divine” appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).
The riddle of the Sphinx is as follows: “What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?” the Sphinx asks Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex (426 B.c.). Oedipus answers that it is man (crawling as an infant, walking erect as an adult, and walking with…
Lolita was twelve when Humbert Humbert first met her.
Three novels comprise John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga: 1. The Man of Property (1906) 2. In Chancery (1920) 3. To Let (1921) and two “interludes”: 1. Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1922) 2. Awakenings (1922)
Theodor Seuss Geisel known as Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, at age eighty-seven. Dr. Seuss had written about fifty books that sold more than 200 million copies. His last book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990), was still on the bestseller list when he died.