Famous quotes containing the words wet and/or plate:
“O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak
ill laid up.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Our press is certainly bankrupt in the “thrill of awe”Motherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)