White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    With sweetest milk, and sugar, first
    I it as mine own fingers nurst.
    And as it grew, so every day
    It wax’d more white and sweet than they.
    It had so sweet a Breath!
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    But all subsists by elemental strife;
    And Passions are the elements of Life.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)