Horizontal Ellipsis Character

Famous quotes containing the words horizontal and/or character:

    “And yet out of eternity, a thread
    separates itself on the blackness,
    a horizontal thread
    that fumes a little with pallor upon the dark.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)