Line

Famous quotes containing the word line:

“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)