Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or spear:
“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“Lift not thy spear against the Muses’ bower:
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground; and the repeated air
Of sad Electra’s poet had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)