Deadly Ground

Famous quotes containing the words deadly and/or ground:

“Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“But with some small portion of real genius and a warm imagination, an author surely may be permitted a little to expand his wings and to wander in the aerial fields of fancy, provided ... that he soar not to such dangerous heights, from whence unplumed he may fall to the ground disgraced, if not disabled from ever rising anymore.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)