Brilliant Cut

Famous quotes containing the words brilliant and/or cut:

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“‘Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)