Constable John Stevens

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

    “You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Be thou that wintry sound
    As of the great wind howling,
    By which sorrow is released,
    Dismissed, absolved
    In a starry placating.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)