Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
With wipes and tickers and what not
Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers/The buck in the snow.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)