Early Blight

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or blight:

“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“It is the blight man was born for,”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)