Famous quotes containing the words hates, martial and/or arts:
“He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Strike the concertina’s melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano’s martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Eliot dead, you saying,
“And who is left to understand my jokes?
My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of
poet.””
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)