Mail Order Bride

Famous quotes containing the words mail, order and/or bride:

    “Always polite, fastidiously dressed in a linen duster and mask, he used to leave behind facetious rhymes signed “Black Bart, Po—8,” in mail and express boxes after he had finished rifling them.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Of what is real I say,
    Is it the old, the roseate parent or
    The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else
    The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)