Bret Hart Quotes (1957-)

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Bret Hart on War 3 quotes

“An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.”

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Bret Hart on Smiling

“With the smile that was childlike and bland.”

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Bret Hart on Tears

“Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.”

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Bret Hart on Bells

“Your voices break and falter in the darkness,— Break, falter, and are still.”

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Bret Hart on Barter

“With all his learning and all his lore; And the Judge would have bartered Maud's fair face For more refinement and social...”

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Bret Hart on Horses

“Morgan! — She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her.”

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Bret Hart on Words

“If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are these we daily see, "It is, but it hadn't ought to be."”

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Bret Hart on Dishonesty

“Which I wish to remark— And my language is plain,— That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”

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Bret Hart on Pansies

“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.”

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Bret Hart on Youth

“Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!”

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Bret Hart on Coyote

“Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through; Loath ever to leave, and yet fearful to stay, He limps in the clearing, an outcast in gray.”

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Bret Hart on Childhood

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of the children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

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Bret Hart on Death

“And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.”

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Bret Hart on Perfume

“And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story—yet Could she think of a sweeter way?”

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Bret Hart on Charles Dickens

“And on that grave where English oak and holly And laurel wreaths entwine, Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly, This spray of Western pine!”

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Bret Hart on John Greenleaf Whittier

“Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"”

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Bobby Heenan - King of the Ring on Bret Hart

“You know if Bret Hart went to bed in a hotel and he asks for a wakeup call at 1:23 in the morning. The guy will come in and say "It's 1 2 3." I bet he'll kick out of bed.”

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Source on Bret Hart 5 quotes

“Vince: (Jerry Lawler has Bret Hart up against the ringpost) We saw Doink earlier ram Bret's leg into the ringpost, now what's Lawler going to do? (Lawler crotches Bret against the post) Oh no!”

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Vince McMahon on Bret Hart

“Vince: Stop it Bobby Heenan!”

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Bobby Heenan on Bret Hart

“Heenan: It is. You should see what they get me.”

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