British Isles Volume

Famous quotes containing the words british, isles and/or volume:

    “Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
    Roses do blush and hang their heads,”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
    Where burning Sappho loved and sung,”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)