Modern Double Basses

Famous quotes containing the words modern, double and/or basses:

    “The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “He does me double wrong
    That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Of a green evening, clear and warm,
    She bathed in her still garden, while
    The red-eyed elders watching, felt

    The basses of their beings throb
    In witching chords, and their thin blood
    Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)