Edged Royal Blue

Famous quotes containing the words edged, royal and/or blue:

    “A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
    —Washington Irving (1783–1859)

    “Not to these shores she came! this other Thrace,
    Environ barbarous to the royal Attic;
    How could her delicate dirge run democratic,
    Delivered in a cloudless boundless public place
    To an inordinate race?”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “This side of the truth,
    You may not see, my son,
    King of your blue eyes
    In the blinding country of youth,
    That all is undone,
    Under the unminding skies....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)