Tone Rows

Famous quotes containing the words tone and/or rows:

    It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
    And disgustingly upside down.
    Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
    And grinning in their sleep.
    Bats!
    —D.H. (David Herbert)