Famous quotes containing the words banquet and/or scene:
“Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:20.
Jesus, recounting banquet excuses.
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)