Pointed

Famous quotes containing the word pointed:

    I heard the beat of centaur’s hoofs over the hard turf
    As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.
    “He is a charming man” “But after all what did he mean?”—
    “His pointed ears. ... He must be unbalanced,”—
    “There was something he said that I might have challenged.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    It’s usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
    And stab my spirit broad awake;
    Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
    Choose thou, before that spirit die,
    A piercing pain, a killing sin,
    And to my dead heart run them in!
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)