Famous quotes containing the words common and/or frequency:
“You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
As reek athrotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my airI banish you!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in ones theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)