Famous quotes containing the words skin, prick and/or tests:
“You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“When you have our roses,
You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
And mock us with our bareness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)