Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“this wonder fled,
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)
“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)