Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Where the Muse herself
    All Time fulfils,
    Who cuts with his scythe
    All things but hers;
    All but the blithe
    Hexameters.”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “On an old shore, the vulgar ocean rolls
    Noiselessly, noiselessly, resembling a thin bird,
    That thinks of settling, yet never settles, on a nest.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)