Infinite Descent

Famous quotes containing the words infinite and/or descent:

“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)