Famous quotes containing the words air and/or blunt:
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“Come, blunt your spear with us,
our pace is hot.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)