Rider Haggard

Famous quotes containing the words rider and/or haggard:

    The sun that leaps on petals through a nought,
    The come a-cropper rider of the flower.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness—calling their denial knowledge.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)