Famous quotes containing the word mottoes:
“‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers’—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!’
‘Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper,
Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?’”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)