Fatal Comet

Famous quotes containing the words fatal and/or comet:

“The novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“By being seldom seen, I could not stir
But like a comet I was wondered at.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)