Famous quotes containing the words wives and/or tale:
“There will be a world of water shed
Upon the parting of your wives and you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty—this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)