“Damn everything but the circus.”
Corita Kent
“So, who needs pantomime for laughs when we have politics?”
Helena Dalli
“The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.”
Joseph Thomson
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
Ben Hecht
“I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.”
Winston Churchill
“I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.”
Jean Rhys
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
Henry Louis Mencken
