Famous quotes containing the words played and/or violent:
“They played the eloquent tum-tum,
And lived on scalps served up in rum
The only sauce they knew.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“The women, who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent clamors, as they invariably do here as elsewhere on every occasion of excitement and alarm, with a view of tranquilizing their own minds and disturbing other people.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)