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Quotes About Galls

Heavens, no! Political meetings. I am a suffragist," she told us proudly. "And if I were permitted to vote, I should vote Liberal. That is what galls him the most. He's the most appalling Tory.
~ Deanna Raybourn
AFFUSION  (AFFU'SION)   n.s.[affusio, Lat.]The act of pouring one thing upon another. Upon the affusion of a tincture of galls, it immediately became as black as ink.Grew'sMusæum.
~ Samuel Johnson
The point here is to do something. Not just anything, not waste our time just blowing off steam. Let's all of us pick some part of our exploitative economy that especially galls us, consider our own assets and aptitudes, and change our behavior.
~ Sarah Chayes
In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.
~ Denise Levertov