Drawn

Famous quotes containing the word drawn:

    “Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
    Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
    Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
    Only, we die in earnest—that’s no jest.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)