Gunpowder Treason Day

Famous quotes containing the words gunpowder, treason and/or day:

    “And there were present
    the Picninnies,
    and the Jobillies,
    and the Garyulies,
    and the great Panjandrum himself,
    with the little round button at top;
    and they all fell to playing the game
    of catch-as-catch-can,
    till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”
    —Samuel Foote (1720–1777)

    “The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
    —Spanish proverb, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 7, quoted in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, trans by P. Motteux)

    “All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)