Thin White Duke

Famous quotes containing the words thin, white and/or duke:

    The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
    Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
    And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
    An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
    Is, as in mockery, set.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
    —Vernon Duke (1903–1969)