Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or detect:
“An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when ‘tis safely got ‘tis worth the winning.
The worst of ‘t is we now and then detect ‘em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect ‘em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (1787–1874)