Famous quotes containing the words gay, straight and/or alliance:
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,”
—Sara Coleridge (1802–1852)
“From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers.... In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumours of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.”
—James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)