Famous quotes containing the word fairest:
“The fairest hand I ever touched: O beauty,
Till now I never knew thee.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Adam, the goodliest man of men since born
His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The wilderness experiences a suddent rise of all her streams and lakes. She feels ten thousand vermin gnawing at the base of her noblest trees. Many combining drag them off, jarring over the roots of the survivors, and tumble them into the nearest stream, till, the fairest having fallen, they scamper off to ransack some new wilderness, and all is still again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)