Cockney quotes

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

-Ruskin,John
  OnWhistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold. Fors Clavigera (published1871^84), letter no.79,18 Jun.

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