Living Island

Famous quotes containing the words living and/or island:

“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)

“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 milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)