August Wilderness

Famous quotes containing the words august and/or wilderness:

“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)