Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or isaac:
“O, why should Love, like men in drinking-songs,
Spice his fair banquet with the dust of death?”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)