Famous quotes containing the words circle, limit and/or iii:
“It was my heaven’s extremest sphere,
The pale which held that lovely deer;
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
—Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)
“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”
—George III (1738–1820)