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)
“Hearing your words, and not a word among them
Tuned to my liking, on a salty day
When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them
Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)