Famous quotes containing the words thy and/or neck:
“Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What’s done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot see a chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)