Caroline Sheridan Norton

Famous quotes containing the words sheridan norton, caroline, sheridan and/or norton:

    My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!
    —Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808–1877)

    In the drawing room [of the Queen’s palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid’s foot between Venus’s thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied “Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    Every cloud must have a silver lining.
    —George A. Norton (1880–1923)