Pretty Soldier Sailor

Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:

    It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.
    Julie Burchill (b. 1960)

    For a shirt verminously busy
    Yon soldier tore from his throat, with oaths
    Godhead might shrink at, but not the lice.
    Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

    The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)