Famous quotes containing the words pointed and/or man:
“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)
“A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)