Lesser

Famous quotes containing the word lesser:

    “As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bell
    And many a lesser bell sound through the room;
    And it is All Souls’ Night.
    And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel
    Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come;
    For it is a ghost’s right....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A lady dying of diabetes
    Listened to the radio,
    Catching the lesser dithyrambs.
    So heaven collects its bleating lambs.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)