Quotes of Ribald - somelinesforyou

“ Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. ”

- Katharine Butler Hathaway

“ I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe. ”

- James Joyce
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