"Shoeblack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Irish shoeblack with rudeness, the "dirty urchin" said, "My honey, all the polish you have is upon your boots and ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two: for the Shoeblack also has a Soul quite other than his Stomach; and would require, if you consider it, for his permanent satisfaction and saturation, simply this allotment, no more, and no less: God's infinite Universe altogether to himself, ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle |
