Praying Mantis Styles

Famous quotes containing the words praying, mantis and/or styles:

    they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
    Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
    Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.
    Chinese proverb.

    There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)