Famous quotes containing the words chiefly and/or rank:
“That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short—not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“... his rank penetrated them as though it had been an odour.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)