Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by J. Milton Hayes

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Last updated on November 20, 2024.

James Milton Hayes, known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue "The Green Eye of the Yellow God", much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show. He also wrote and performed many other monologues.

English - Actor | 1884 - 1940

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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

J. Milton Hayes

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

J. Milton Hayes

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

J. Milton Hayes

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

J. Milton Hayes

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.

J. Milton Hayes

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by J. Milton Hayes

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