Famous quotes containing the words splinter and/or pattern:
“Let me be
a splinter in your side
or a bride.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral;
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)