Prick

Famous quotes containing the word prick:

“Well, ‘tis no matter, honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if
honor prick me off when I come on? how then?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“When you have our roses,
You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
And mock us with our bareness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew—
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)