Famous quotes containing the word railing:
“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)