Loveless Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words loveless and/or attempts:

“With not one kiss, or a good-bye,
And the only loveless look the look with which you passed:
‘Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways.”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)

“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)