Wotton

Famous quotes containing the word wotton:

    “And mother almost always sighs,
    When father carves the duck.
    Then all of us prepare to rise,
    And hold our bibs before our eyes,
    And be prepared for some surprise,
    When father carves the duck.”
    —Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)

    “He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
    To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.”
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    “You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?”
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)