Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth and/or south:
“Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”
—Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)
“Even when seen from near, the olive shows
A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)