Double Centuries

Famous quotes containing the words double and/or centuries:

“...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)

“Three centuries of piety
Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)