Famous quotes containing the words strong and/or bid:
“The unities, sir, he said, are a completenessa kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and timea sort of general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“And bid the devil take the hinmost.”
—Samuel Butler (16121680)