Famous quotes containing the word corner:
“If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day’s work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably—why, then I don’t think I deserve any reward for my hard day’s work—for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)