Sable Island Station

Famous quotes containing the words sable, island and/or station:

    Miss Caswell: Now there’s something a girl could make sacrifices for.
    Bill: And probably has.
    Miss Caswell: Sable.
    Max: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable?
    Miss Caswell: Either one.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

    I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
    Sarah Ellis (1812–1872)