Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15 1824 – March 20 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist.

Quotes

• Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
  Where ish dat barty now?
  • Hans Breitmann's Party (1871).

• They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.
  • The Masher.

• The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.
  • The Masher.

• If all the world must see the world
  As the world the world hath seen,
  Then it were better for the world
  That the world had never been.
  • The World and the World.

External links

• Works by Charles Godfrey Leland at Project Gutenberg
• Charles Godfrey Leland - An article on Leland and Italian Witchcraft