High Hand

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or hand:

“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall.... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“Olivia. Is’t not well done?
Viola. Excellently done, if God did all.
Olivia. ‘Tis in grain, sir, ‘twill endure wind and weather.
Viola. ‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)