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)
“I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)