Dame Grand Cross

Famous quotes containing the words dame, grand and/or cross:

    “When my old wife lived, upon
    This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
    Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all,
    Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here
    At upper end o’the table, now i’the middle,
    On his shoulder, and his, her face afire
    With labor, and the thing she took to quench it
    She would to each one sip.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)