Sting Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or defeated:

    Ghost. The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
    Now wears his crown.
    Hamlet. O my prophetic soul!
    My uncle?
    Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Lest darkness fall and time fall
    In a long night when learned arteries
    Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
    Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
    We are the eyelids of defeated caves.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)