Peter Green Splinter

Famous quotes containing the words peter, green and/or splinter:

    “Among them was a Bishop, who
    Had lately been appointed to
    The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,
    And Peter was his name.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
    We have drunken of things Lethean; and fed on the fullness of death.
    Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day;
    But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.
    Sleep, shall we sleep after all? for the world is not sweet in the
    end;
    For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend.”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)

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