Famous quotes containing the words tygers of, tygers, pan, tang and/or biography:
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of ainstruction.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of ainstruction.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“When Pan sounds up his minstrelsy;
His minstrelsy! O base! This quill,
Which at my mouth with wind I fill,
Puts me in mind, though her I miss,
That still my Syrinx’ lips I kiss.”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)
“The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliver and sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)