Famous quotes containing the words officers and/or wear:
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)
“She was the first of our rich women to wear many diamonds, and she always looked as if they wearied her.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)