Ten Virgins

Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or virgins:

    ... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ... [ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland (b. 1901)