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.
What’s the use of anger here?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.”
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)