Jane Grey Swisshelm

Famous quotes containing the words jane grey swisshelm, grey swisshelm, grey and/or swisshelm:

    Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
    The great grey rigid uniform combined
    Safety with virtue of the sun.
    Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.
    Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

    I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)