Hollow

Famous quotes containing the word hollow:

“The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
And locked the classroom door,
The hollow desks are dimmed with dust....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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 (1817–1862)

“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”
—Nicholas Breton (c. 1545–1626)