Long Sword

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or sword:

    Too long a sacrifice
    Can make a stone of the heart.
    O when may it suffice?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was—nobody any longer wanted to be that.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)