Pit Fiend Greater

Famous quotes containing the words pit, fiend and/or greater:

    “The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “Like a fiend in a cloud
    With howling woe,
    After night I do crowd,
    And with night will go;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Order is Heaven’s first law; and this confessed,
    Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
    More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence
    That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
    Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
    Bliss is the same in subject or in king.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)