Famous quotes containing the words white, duke and/or edit:
“Lately
Ive been looking at old-fashioned plaids, fingering
Starched white collars, wondering whether theres a way
To get them really white again. My wife
Thinks Im in OsloOslo, France, that is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV] at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ships crew, now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)