Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by C. J. Dennis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian poet C. J. Dennis.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
C. J. Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title 'the laureate of the larrikin'.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it. — © C. J. Dennis
It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.
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