West Gate

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or gate:

    There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)