Famous quotes containing the words jane grey swisshelm, grey swisshelm, jane grey, grey and/or swisshelm:
“They keep such a dingdong about “supporting the Constitution.” One might imagine it was some miserable, decrepit old creature that was no longer able to totter on crutches but must be held on every side, and dragged along like a drunken loafer, on his road to the lock-up.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“Fretted shadow on stumps
A vanishing husk
Of light . . . grey lumps
Of stone verge the hills with fears.
It is quickly dusk.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“It is an old adage, “All is fair in love as in war,” but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)