Famous quotes containing the words paxton and/or house:
“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal whod take a drink if she had to knock me down to get the bottle.”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendour.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)