"Regrettably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... increase, And a Justice at Bootle excuse the police, And how to clean trousers when spotted with grease, And a pianist biting his wife from caprice, And an eminent Baptist's arrival at Nice, And a banker's regrettably painless decease, And the new quarantine for the plucking of geese, And a mad millionaire's unobtrusive release, And a marquis divorced by a usurer's niece— If all of these items could suddenly cease And leave me with one ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward |
