Red Star Won

Famous quotes containing the words red, star and/or won:

    ““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
    This fallen star my milk sustains,
    This love that makes my heart’s blood stop
    Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
    And bids my hair stand up?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “For sleeping, like death,
    Must be won without pride,
    With a nod from nature,
    With a lack of strain,
    And a loss of stature.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)