Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or species:
“Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)