Dame Alice Owen

Famous quotes containing the words dame, alice and/or owen:

    One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I ca’n’t take more.”
    “You mean you ca’n’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Was it for this the clay grew tall?
    MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
    To break earth’s sleep at all?
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)