Chagrin Falls

Famous quotes containing the words chagrin and/or falls:

    I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The light of her face falls from its flower,
    as a hyacinth,
    hidden in a far valley,
    perishes upon burnt grass.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)