Favourite Sky

Famous quotes containing the words favourite and/or sky:

    “Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Do you drink champagne yourself?
    Mr. Oscar Wilde: Yes; iced champagne is a favourite drink of mine—strongly against my doctor’s orders.
    Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Never mind your doctor’s orders, sir!
    Mr. Oscar Wilde: I never do.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn’t want it, they said in their hundred voices, “No, not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there.””
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)