Famous quotes containing the word tear:
“To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Anything that makes you laugh. But the finest sort draws a tear along with the laugh.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I saw a staring virgin stand
Where holy Dionysus died,
And tear the heart out of his side,
And lay the heart upon her hand
And bear that beating heart away;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)