Bright

Famous quotes containing the word bright:

“Like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The elect, the elected . . . they come here bright as dimes,
and die dishevelled and soft.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)