Famous quotes containing the words close and/or support:
“My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Surely, ‘tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him so ... so here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the character ... of generosity and virtue.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)