Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:
“... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a womans breast.
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,
Who once a day with his embossed froth
The turbulent surge shall cover; thither come,
And let my grave-stone be your oracle.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fallthe company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)