White Duck

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or duck:

    I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets who—like people waiting beside you, but to whom you are unknown—maintained a silence which their individuality of living things rendered more imposing and in their chilly manner received the heat from an incandescent coal fire, preciously placed behind a crystal glass, in a white marble tub where it dropped, from time to time, its dangerous rubies.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    Here is no eft or mortal snake
    But only sluggish duck and drake.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)