Famous quotes containing the words shine and/or boots:
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)