Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“We knew how to get by on what comes along, but the idea
Warning, waiting there like a forest, not emptied, beckons.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)