Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“She stripped it from her arm. I see her yet:
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“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)