wet quotes

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

-Anonymous
c.1925  The origin of this line is disputed; it has been attributed to Billy Wilder, Charles Butterworth,  Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley's press agent. It was used by Mae West in Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film) and by Benchley in The Major and the Minor (1942 film).

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Inversnaid'.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Lustra,'In a Station of the Metro'.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Late in the night when the fires are out, Why does he gallop and gallop about?

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.9,'Windy Nights', stanza1.