Winter Service Uniform

Famous quotes containing the words winter, service and/or uniform:

“Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)

“An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
—Phil Patton (b. 1953)