Pinter/honours

Famous quotes containing the words pinter and/or honours:

“Anna: I’m getting married.
Stephen: Oh. Who to?
Anna: William.
Stephen: Ah. Have you told him?”
—Harold Pinter (b. 1930)

“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)