"Topless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Spirit of Commerce, looking at any well-dressed woman, might say, in the words of Marlow, "This is the face that launched a thousand ships"; while the Spirit of Socialism could do nothing but "burn the topless towers." In this way of putting the case there was perhaps some slight exaggeration, but there is in it, at all ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock |
