Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse—
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“We’d like to fight but we fear defeat,
We’d like to work but we’re feeling too weak,
We’d like to be sick but we’d get the sack,
We’d like to behave, we’d like to believe,
We’d like to love, but we’ve lost the knack.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
—Henry Lewis Stimson (1867–1930)