Finishing World

Famous quotes containing the words finishing and/or world:

    “Minerva House ... was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “This world is half the devil’s and my own,
    Daft with the drug that’s smoking in a girl....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)