Long Sword

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or sword:

    “When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
    —Jean Racine (1639–1699)

    “I had not given a penny for a song
    Did not the poet sing it with such airs
    That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
    Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
    Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)