Cecil Greenwood Hare

Famous quotes containing the words greenwood and/or hare:

    “Under the greenwood tree
    Who loves to lie with me,
    And turn his merry note
    Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
    Come hither, come hither, come hither!
    Here shall he see
    No enemy
    But winter and rough weather.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot see a chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)