Scythe/mythology

Famous quotes containing the words scythe and/or mythology:

“this scythe that mows down kings
Exempts no meaner mortal things.”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

“Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)