Highly Polished

Famous quotes containing the words highly and/or polished:

“a highly respectable gondolier,
Who promised the Royal babe to rear
And teach him the trade of a timoneer
With his own beloved brattling.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“I could see that none were clumsy.
I could see that each was tight and firm.
Not one of them had trickled blood
waiting as polished as gull beaks,
as closed as all that.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)