Cries

Famous quotes containing the word cries:

“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“‘Where is the world?’ cries Young, at eighty. ‘Where
The world in which a man was born?’”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“That clemency which the world cries up for such a mighty virtue proceeds sometimes from ostentation, sometimes from laziness and neglect, very often from fear, almost always from a mixture of all these together.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)