Famous quotes containing the words ransom and/or notes:
“For I must have my lovely lady soon,
I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“If the heart of a man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell’d when a woman appears;
Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)