Famous quotes containing the words west and/or pearsall:
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“There is one thing that mattersto set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (18651946)