Darkling Plain

Famous quotes containing the words darkling plain, darkling and/or plain:

    And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    O sun,
    Burn the great sphere thou mov’st in! darkling stand
    The varying shore o’ th’ world!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    They say it’s worse to be ugly. I think it must only be different. If you’re pretty, you are subject to one set of assaults; if you’re plain you are subject to another.
    Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932)