Famous quotes containing the words sanctuary of, sanctuary, lady and/or candles:
“Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defence-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“There’s husbandry in heaven,
Their candles are all out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)