Sharp Introduced

Famous quotes containing the words sharp and/or introduced:

    Freedom is like a man who kills himself
    Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
    Grows sharp in blood.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)