Cuthbert Set World

Famous quotes containing the words cuthbert, set and/or world:

    “I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,
    Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe.
    Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
    That no drope ne fille upon hire brest.
    In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)