Straw Doll

Famous quotes containing the words straw and/or doll:

“The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, “This is God’s hat.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Some men are all right in their place—if they only knew the right places.”
—Raoul Walsh, U.S. screenwriter. Frisco Doll (Mae West)