Alternate Powder Blue

Famous quotes containing the words alternate, powder and/or blue:

    “In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
    —Henry James (1843–1816)

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)

    “Buz, quoth the blue fly,
    Hum, quoth the bee,
    Buz and hum they cry,
    And so do we:
    In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
    He ate the dormouse, else it was he.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)