Grand Duke of Tuscany

Famous quotes containing the words grand, duke and/or tuscany:

    “One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “That very knowing,
    Overflowing,
    Easygoing
    Paladin,
    The Duke of Plaza-Toro!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Neither the Ages of Faith nor the Age of Doubt had touched him; he was Phaethon in Tuscany driving a cab.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)