Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or air:
“I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)