Famous quotes containing the words bent and/or trumpet:
“He is like all the rest: a slave to profit, a master only to his bent for negotiating the best deal.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)