Famous quotes containing the words roast and/or duck:
“I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“She shall get a duke, my dear,
As duck do get a drake;
And she shall have a young prince,
For her own fair sake.”
—Unknown. Green Grass (l. 912)