Famous quotes containing the words thomas, baron and/or downfall:
“The seed-at-zero shall not storm
That town of ghosts, the trodden womb
With her rampart to his tapping....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
—Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)