Famous quotes containing the words islands, british, virgin and/or saint:
“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Sir Charles: Are you?
Princess Dala: What?
Sir Charles: What they call you—the Virgin Queen?
Princess Dala: I’m not a queen.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement—in a word, with more renunciation than you care for—and so you flee the contagion.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)