Battered

Famous quotes containing the word battered:

“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)