Grey Livery

Famous quotes containing the words grey and/or livery:

“Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”
—T.E. (Thomas Edward)