Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remembered tolling a departing friend.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“If only Centuries, delayed,
I’d count them on my Hand,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)