Famous quotes containing the words torture and/or rack:
“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“O, let him pass. He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)