Famous quotes containing the words crude and/or oil:
“As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearlyour world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purblind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutalwe shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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