Famous quotes containing the word hollow:
“This house was but a slight departure from the hollow tree, which the bear still inhabits,being a hollow made with trees piled up, with a coating of bark like its original.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I often look upon a face
Most ugly, grisly, bare and thin;
I often view the hollow place,
Where eyes and nose had sometimes been;”
—Robert Southwell (1561?1595)
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