Famous quotes containing the words thou art, would i, steadfast, thou and/or art:
“Now let it work! Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater, and my waist slenderer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The steadfast shores never once turned aside for us, but still trended as they were made; why then should we always turn aside for them?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)