Burnt

Famous quotes containing the word burnt:

    “Slow, slow!
    For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
    Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
    Whose clustered fruit must else be lost
    For the grapes’ sake along the wall.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “O! let me clip ye
    In arms as sound as when I wooed, in heart
    As merry as when our nuptial day was done
    And tapers burnt to bedward!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “People who are always praising the past
    And especially the times of faith as best
    Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages
    And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)