Pieces

Famous quotes containing the word pieces:

“Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Joy has no cause:
Though cut to pieces with a knife,
Cannot keep silence. What else should magnetize
Our drudging, hypocritical, ecstatic life?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)