Famous quotes containing the words van and/or wrote:
“Dont you hear his cannons roar?
Well be Orangemen no more
Says the Shan Van Vocht.”
—Unknown. The Shan Van Vocht (l. 1012)
“His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.”
—Evelyn Waugh (19031966)