Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“Oh no, it wasn’t the aviators, it was beauty that killed the beast.”
—James Creelman, screenwriter, Ruth Rose, screenwriter, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
“The gossiping of friendly spheres,
The creaking of the tented sky,
The ticking of Eternity.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“I ... observed the great beauty of American government to be, that the simple machines of representation, carried through all its parts, gives facility for a being moulded at will to fit with the knowledge of the age; that thus, although it should be imperfect in any or all of its parts, it bears within it a perfect principle the principle of improvement.
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—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)