Large White Pearls

Famous quotes containing the words large, white and/or pearls:

    “He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Whether he cringe at my feet,
    whether he beat on your eyes,
    white wings, white butterflies.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Those are pearls that were his eyes.
    “Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
    But
    O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
    It’s so elegant
    So intelligent ...”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)