Famous quotes containing the words deadly and/or passage:
“Detestable flatterers! the most deadly gift that divine wrath may give a king!”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)