Famous quotes containing the words cheever and/or wrote:
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“He shall not die, by G—, cried my uncle Toby.
MThe ACCUSING SPIRIT which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blush’d as he gave it in;—and the RECORDING ANGEL as he wrote it down, dropp’d a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)