Famous quotes containing the words dear lady, dear, lady and/or smith:
“What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
One look I but gave which your dear eyes return’d with a look I
shall never forget,
One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach’d up as you lay on the ground,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)