Oil/basis

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or basis:

    “His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Even upon such a basis hast thou built
    A monument, whose cement hath been guilt!”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)