Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, century and/or english:
“A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb. Collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Speech is the mirror of the soul.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)
“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)