(65 quotes found)
“The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.”
Joseph Thomson
“Damn everything but the circus.”
Corita Kent
“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
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
Ben Hecht
“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
“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.”
Claude Debussy
“There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.”
Walter Kerr
“In 1906 the Czechs were already applauding the famous circus of the Wild West hero William Frederick Cody, better known as ”
Buffalo Bill
“I mean, the game turned into a little bit of a three-ring circus.”
Chris Burke
