Undertaker Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words undertaker and/or defeated:

“The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet—
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the “dragon,” in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)