White Protestant

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or protestant:

    “By straightening out and lifting a forefinger,
    He pointed with his hand from where it lay
    Like a white crumpled spider on his knee:”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
    ‘Twas fastened and burned at the stake as heretic,
    While the flames roared around it they heard a strange
    noise—
    ‘Twas the old flute still whistling ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 37–40)