Famous quotes containing the words brilliant and/or finish:
“I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of Bravo! bravo! and the fanfaronade of trumpets.... I do not know which astonished me the most, the strikingly curious, brilliant coup doeil, the dexterity of the men, the intrepidity of the animals, the miserable unfair play, or the pleasure of the spectators.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. Dyou know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other mens left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
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