Relics

Famous quotes containing the word relics:

    Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
    Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.
    Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

    Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What’s to do?
    Shall we go see the relics of this town?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)