Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or gallery:
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)