Famous quotes containing the word eighteen:
“That woman speaks eighteen languages and can’t say No in any of them.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)