Famous quotes containing the word excellent:
“Ive tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. Id rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But Im sure I have contributed to false valuesas Stanley Woodward said, Godding up those ballplayers.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“So excellent a king that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
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