Famous quotes containing the words castle and/or perilous:
“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
—14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)
“The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of orchids, piled in a great sheath.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)