Phoenix Force/deceased Characters

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, force, deceased and/or characters:

    “And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
    Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
    And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
    I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Then for the Style; Majestick and Divine,
    It speaks no less than God in every Line:
    Commanding words; whose Force is still the same
    As the first Fiat that produc’d our Frame.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    “No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)