Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, seventeenth-century english and/or english:
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“In an English dinner-party ... I have never known small-talk run short!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)