Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“I cannot halt
The tread, the beat of it, it is my own heart,
The walls of my room rise, it is still night,
I have woken again before the word was spelt.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“That most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat that paradox!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)