Murdered

Famous quotes containing the word murdered:

“You smile with pomp & rigor, you talk of benevolence & virtue;
I act with benevolence & virtue & get murdered time after time.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)

“An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)