Famous quotes containing the words world and/or cross:
“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
“In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)