Twenty Minutes

Famous quotes containing the words twenty and/or minutes:

    “It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.”
    —Henry Fielding (1707–1754)