Fairest

Famous quotes containing the word fairest:

    “Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    “We had the fairest view of Ktaadn.... The summit ... had a singularly flat, table-land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an afternoon, to settle his dinner.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)