Armed Men

Famous quotes containing the words armed and/or men:

    “He could pause in his cross-examination, look at a man, projecting his face forward by degrees as he did so, in a manner which would crush any false witness who was not armed with triple courage at his breast,—and, alas! not unfrequently a witness who was not false.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)