William Smith Otis

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

    “Bless your heart, they don’t mind—they’re exceedingly
    kind—
    They don’t blame you—as long as you’re funny!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “One good thing came out of the summit. We got to see that Dan Rather is definitely a he-man and no wimp.”
    —Liz Smith (b. 1923)

    “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)