De Saint Vincent

Famous quotes containing the words saint and/or vincent:

“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement—in a word, with more renunciation than you care for—and so you flee the contagion.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness—presently
Every bed is narrow.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)