Wonderful Law

Famous quotes containing the words wonderful and/or law:

    “Wistfully watching, with wonderful liquid eyes.
    And all her weight, all her blood, dripping sack-wise down towards
    the earth’s center,
    And the live little-one taking in its paw at the door of her belly.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)