Famous quotes containing the words hilton, head and/or island:
“Art thou innocent, art thou immoral,”
—Arthur Clement Hilton (18511877)
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above ones head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de Medici placed beside a milliners doll.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)