Frankie Told

Famous quotes containing the words frankie and/or told:

    Frankie threw back her kimono, she took out her forty-four.
    Root-a-toot-toot, three times she shot, right through that hardwood
    door.
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 25–27)

    I am told that Duclos’ book is not in vogue in Paris, and that it is being violently criticized, apparently because readers understand it; and being intelligible is no longer the fashion.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)