Chief Pleas

Famous quotes containing the words chief and/or pleas:

    Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
    Unfriendly to society’s chief joys.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)