Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or bear:
“Behold that great Plotinus swim
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)