John Smith Phelps

Famous quotes containing the words john, smith and/or phelps:

“Approval of what is approved of
Is as false as a well-kept vow.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

“Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow:

It was like feasting upon air.”
—William Jay Smith (b. 1918)

“To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)