Famous quotes containing the words islands, march, solomon and/or converse:
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.
I do, Alice hastily replied; at leastat least I mean what I saythats the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. Why you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.”
—Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon 4:5.
“Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look, word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)