Fire Belly Newts

Famous quotes containing the words fire, belly and/or newts:

    “The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch,
    But that the sea, mounting to the welkin’s cheek,
    Dashes the fire out.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”
    —Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    “Even the newts are white,

    Those holy Joes.
    And the fish, the fish—
    Christ! they are panes of ice.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)