Famous quotes containing the words lost, sacred and/or feminine:
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)