Famous quotes containing the words award, single, year and/or selling:
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove’s,
The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“... breaks ancestrally each year into
Regenerate union. Let it always be there.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)