Named Webster

Famous quotes containing the words named and/or webster:

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

“We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)