Polish Victory Lap

Famous quotes containing the words polish, victory and/or lap:

    “‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
    Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
    crackers’—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “In social halls a favored guest
    In years that follow victory won,
    How sweet to feel your festal fame
    In woman’s glance instinctive thrown:
    Repose is yours—your deed is known,”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)