Clover Mist Fire

Famous quotes containing the words clover, mist and/or fire:

    “I’m in clover now, nor know
    Who made honey long ago.”
    —Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

    “Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)