Famous quotes containing the words false lights, false and/or lights:
“In spite of rock and tempests roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant oer our fears,
Are all with thee,are all with thee!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)
“I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt.
The ancient proverb will be well effected:
A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“So the 20th Centuryso
whizzed the Limitedroared by and left
three men, still hungry on the tracks, ploddingly
watching the tail lights wizen and converge, slip-
ping gimleted and neatly out of sight.”
—Hart Crane (18991932)