Famous quotes containing the words dark, age and/or book:
“Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:
However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)