Famous quotes containing the word polish:
“Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.”
—Frances Trollope (17801863)
“It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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