A garland of quotations LXXXVII

Culled from the finest dastards in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday

•Jacob Steinhardt, The Evil (1950).

•Doré, “Little Tom Thumb” (c. 1863).

•Bil Keane, The Family Circus (1980s).

•Tenniel, “Imperium et Libertas!” (1880).

•Harold DeLay(?), Blue Circle Comics #5 (1944).

•Batman (1966).

•Fletcher Hanks, Jungle Comics #4 (1940).

•E.C. Segar, Thimble Theatre (1929).

•“Three Little Bops” (1959)

•Sam Gross, citation conveniently lost.

I promise not to do this very often, or perhaps ever again, but it’s my birthday this weekend and I wanted to do something weird; some of this material is copyrighted, and I plead only fair use.