Famous quotes containing the words gentle and/or fist:
“Cleopatra. Think you there was or might be such a man
As this I dreamt of?
Dolabella. Gentle madam, no.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I was afraid the waking arm would break
From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
In the exultant labor of his rise;”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)