School House Colours

Famous quotes containing the words school, house and/or colours:

    “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man’s needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”
    —Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)

    “In a borealic iceberg came Victoria; she
    Knew Prince Albert’s tall memorial took the colours of the floreal
    And the borealic iceberg;”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)