Famous quotes containing the words william and/or cutting:
“Utopia’s quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England—with improvements,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“should some limb of the devil
Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)