Famous quotes containing the word corner:
“Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anaesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“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 days work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortablywhy, then I dont think I deserve any reward for my hard days workfor am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry Heigh-ho for a husband!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)