William Smith Otis

Famous quotes containing the words william, smith and/or otis:

    Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
    Roses do blush and hang their heads,
    Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    It’s not that I don’t want to be a beauty, that I don’t yearn to be dripping with glamor. It’s just that I can’t see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)