Famous quotes containing the word martyred:
“Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow,
Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free,”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)