Lady Sheba

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or sheba:

    ‘Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one’s power to do good, riches being another word for power.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    When Sheba was his lass,
    When she the iron wrought, or
    When from the smithy fire
    It shuddered in the water:
    Harshness of their desire
    That made them stretch and yawn....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)