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)

    “But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
    And after in life’s vase
    Of glass set while I might survive,
    But by a kind hand brought
    Alive
    To a strange place.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)