Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“We knew their line invincible
because there fell
on them no shiverings
of the white enchantress,
radiant Aphrodite’s spell.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)