Famous quotes containing the words thin, white and/or duke:
“Slim Woman,
all your ample parts
have become thin
and even the thin ones
have reached the limit
of thinness.
Whats the use of anger here?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“That very knowing,
Overflowing,
Easygoing
Paladin,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)