Harbour Red Wings

Famous quotes containing the words harbour, red and/or wings:

    “Patience, the beggar’s virtue, Shall find no harbour here.”
    —Philip Massinger (1583–1640)

    “Its whether will ye be a rank robber’s wife,
    Or will ye die by my wee pen knife?

    Its I’ll not be a rank robber’s wife,
    But I’ll rather die by your wee pen knife.

    He ‘s killed this may and he ‘s laid her by,
    For to bear the red rose company.”
    —Unknown. Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o’ Fordie (l. 9–14)

    “Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings compelled me, fallen.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)