Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“And yet these Rarities might be allow’d,
To Man, that sov’raign thing and proud;
Had he not dealt between the Bark and Tree,
Forbidden mixtures there to see.
No Plant now knew the Stock from which it came;
He grafts upon the Wild the Tame:”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“We knew how to order. Just the dash
Necessary. The length of gaiety in good taste.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a
man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)