Famous quotes containing the words lord, thy and/or god:
“There was a young lady of Ryde
Who was carried far out by the tide.
Cried a man-eating shark,
“How’s this for a lark?
I knew that the Lord would provide.””
—Anonymous.
“When Lady Mary Tufton married Dr. Duncan, an elderly physician, Mr. George Selwyn said, “How often will she say with Macbeth ‘Wake, Duncan, with thy knocking—would thou couldst!’””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts.
Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
The sense of reckoning, ere th’ opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)