Famous quotes containing the words centre, line and/or party:
“In the centre of his cage
The pacing animal
Surveys the jungle cove
And slicks his slithering wiles
To turn the venereal awl
In the livid wound of love.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,almost any timber will give way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is with Love as with CuckoldomMthe suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)