Famous quotes containing the words error and/or rate:
“Custom calls me tot.
What custom wills, in all things should we dot,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to oerpeer.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with characters, or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons in history. History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)