Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or alive:
“Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)