Reed

Famous quotes containing the word reed:

    It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At ... moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James (1848–1892)

    And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
    By any emollient.
    —Henry Reed (1914–1986)

    I do not live in the world of sobriety.
    —Oliver Reed (b. 1938)