Lesser

Famous quotes containing the word lesser:

    “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 great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)