Forced

Famous quotes containing the word forced:

“There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
The city to the soldier’s rage resigned;
Successless wars, and poverty behind;
Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Strange to know nothing, never to be sure
Of what is true or right or real,
But forced to qualify or so I feel....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)