Declared Vacant April

Famous quotes containing the words declared, vacant and/or april:

    “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
    And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
    And old men vacant of propriety
    Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “An April Sunday brings the snow
    Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
    Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)