Wick/people

Famous quotes containing the words wick and/or people:

“There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)