Bid

Famous quotes containing the word bid:

“Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impossible,
Yea, get the better of them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)