Famous quotes containing the words burnt, face and/or man:
“People who are always praising the past
And especially the times of faith as best
Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages
And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.”
—Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
“A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.”
—Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)
“When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil’s in his heart, and that fixes him.”
—Dan Totheroh (1895–1976)