China Wind

Famous quotes containing the words china and/or wind:

“The roof of England fell
Great Paris tolled her bell
And China staunched her milk and wept for bread”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“Olivia. Is’t not well done?
Viola. Excellently done, if God did all.
Olivia. ‘Tis in grain, sir, ‘twill endure wind and weather.
Viola. ‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)