Silver/history

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or history:

    Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
    But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,
    Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

    I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility—I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)