Sam Yeo

The new alt-moderate. "Doth sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea."

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

“Oh, my countrymen, be nice; be cautious of your language, and never, oh never let it be forgotten upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.”
-- From Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' (1759) #tristramshandy #books

[Patrick White Catalogue @HamFuneral]

To the best of our knowledge, @MarisePayne is the only Australian Federal politician to quote Patrick White in their maiden speech. And what a quote it is!
See more White references on our Hansard page: https://t.co/XAx5SSZ63t
#patrickwhite #auspol #auslit

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

It is not a good thing for one party to control the whole mainland. Not for democracy, nor for free transmission of ideas. This is the Coalition’s fault for ignoring the sensible centre. They must think about whether they want to represent Australians or just special interests.

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing
ducks."
-William Arabin, British judge, early 19th c.

[OurCofELike @OurCofELike]

I understand that the King asked for this poem by ⁦@malcolmguite⁩ to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"The street was Australia: sandy, makeshift, innocent."
-Randolph Stow, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"We have the lesson that they died to teach;
We hear their voices in the wind and rain.
God of our fathers! Let our honour reach
So high that we may touch their hands again."
-Robert Crawford, At Gallipoli, 1924

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"You and I ought not to die
before we have explained ourselves to each other."
-John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1813

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Miss Austen being, as you say, without ‘sentiment’, without poetry,
maybe is sensible, real (more real than true), but she cannot be great."
-Charlotte Brontë

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Now there are fields of corn where Troy once stood."
-Ovid, Heroides

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Twinkle, twinkle little stars
On a million motor-cars,
Along the Harbour Bridge so high,
Like a coathanger in the sky."
-Dorothy Auchterlonie, Kaleidoscope

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"It doesn't matter much - nothing does."
-Henry Lawson, The Union Buries Its Dead

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"’Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave."
-Dr. John Armstrong, 1744

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts."
-Katherine, in Henry VIII, III.i
#shakespeare

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Australians swallow more syllables than any other single item of consumption."
-Sir Hermann Black, SMH, 1982

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"I am old, she said, as if she had bought her way out of any further responsibility."
-Patrick White, The Aunt's Story

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"The cruel girls we loved
Are over forty,
Their subtle daughters
Have stolen their beauty;
And with a blue stare
Of cool surprise
They mock their anxious mothers
With their mother's eyes."
-David Campbell

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Young, we love, grasp, consume. Old, we savour.
And the taste sends us wild."
-Vera Newsom

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-Hippocrates, late 5th century BCE

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"She seldom committed herself to emotion, which was bad for her health, or to statement of opinion, for this would have meant having one."
-Patrick White, The Tree of Man

[Sam Yeo @TheCardiganKid]

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
-Francis Bacon