White Tie/elements

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

    As if that hand
    squeezing crow’s blood
    against a white sky
    beside an idiot’s laughing face
    were real.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
    With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
    Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)