Wotton

Famous quotes containing the word wotton:

“And mother almost always sighs,
When father carves the duck.
Then all of us prepare to rise,
And hold our bibs before our eyes,
And be prepared for some surprise,
When father carves the duck.”
—Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)

“Then, though darkened, you shall say,
When friends fail, and Princes frown,
Virtue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a bed of down.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)