“Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.”
Arnold Bennett
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S. Lewis
“Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.”
Walter de La Mare
“Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.”
William Johnson Cory
“Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.”
Craig Claiborne
“There might be some credit in being jolly.”
Charles Dickens
“Three jolly gentlemen, / In coats of red, / Rode their horses / Up to bed.”