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)

    “I, a poor peasant, have conquered science. Why can’t I conquer love? Don’t you understand? You must be mine, not his. You are mine.”
    —P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “The sky seemed so small that winter day,
    A dirty light on a lifeless world,
    Contracted like a withered stick.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)