Famous quotes containing the words late, middle and/or english:
“Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late to kill me so,
Being double dead: going, and bidding go.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“Now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head I’d say,
I am rowing, I am rowing....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)