Slave

Famous quotes containing the word slave:

““... The slave will never thank his manumitter;
Which often makes the manumitter bitter.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“This is the monstruosity in love, lady—that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)