Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Noel Brailsford

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist Henry Noel Brailsford.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Henry Noel Brailsford

Henry Noel Brailsford was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century. A founding member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1907, he resigned from his job at The Daily News in 1909 when it supported the force-feeding of suffragettes on hunger strike.

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads — © Henry Noel Brailsford
Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, A full-hatched beauty seems to nest Nor snow, which falling from the sky Hovers in its virginity.
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