Late West Saxon

Famous quotes containing the words late, west and/or saxon:

    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “He is every other inch a gentleman.”
    —Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)

    “It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)