Double Ten Day

Famous quotes containing the words double, ten and/or day:

    “...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
    —John le Carré (b. 1931)

    “Love’s heralds should be thoughts,
    Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,
    Driving back shadows over low’ring hills.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)