Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

    Your brother and my sister 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.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    And yet these Rarities might be allow’d,
    To Man, that sov’raign thing and proud;
    Had he not dealt between the Bark and Tree,
    Forbidden mixtures there to see.
    No Plant now knew the Stock from which it came;
    He grafts upon the Wild the Tame:
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)