Famous quotes containing the words herbert, henry, dow and/or biography:
“Inconstancy no sin will prove
If we consider that we love
But the same beauty in another face,
Like the same body in another place.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)
“How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another’s will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
“The woman was old and ragged and gray
And bent with the chill of the Winter’s day.”
—Mary Dow Brine (1816–1913)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)