Famous quotes containing the words monster and/or clown:
“The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)