Cutting Torch

Famous quotes containing the words cutting and/or torch:

    “What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
    Maryland!
    His torch is at thy temple door,
    Maryland!
    Avenge the patriotic gore
    That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
    And be the battle-queen of yore,
    Maryland! my Maryland!”
    —James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)