Awe

Famous quotes containing the word awe:

“The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.”
—Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)

“As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)