Simple Pole

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or pole:

    “Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. A double one in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
    —Muriel Spark (b. 1918)