Late

Famous quotes containing the word late:

“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

““Men there were and men there be
But never men so many
Chief enough to marry me,”
Thought the proud late Annie.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
—James A. Michener (b. 1907)