Master Splinter

Famous quotes containing the words master and/or splinter:

“I remember the almost daily talks of my mother on the cruelty of slavery. I would say nothing to her, but I was thinking all the time that slavery did not seem so cruel. Master and Mistress Jennings were not mean to my mother. It was she who was mean to them.”
—Cornelia (1844–?)

“Let me be
a splinter in your side
or a bride.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)