Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words woman, thou and/or art:

    Religion
    Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
    And we won’t have it kicking over the traces again.
    Christopher Fry (b. 1907)

    Now let it work! Mischief, thou art afoot,
    Take thou what course thou wilt.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)