Madcap Laughs

Famous quotes containing the words madcap and/or laughs:

“The Madcap Heiress, isn’t that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne)

“Meanwhile the angel,
dressed for laughs as a plasterer,
puts a match to whatever’s
lying in the grate: broken scaffolds,
empty cocoons, the paraphernalia
of unseen change.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)