Famous quotes containing the words extravagant and/or rake:
“Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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