Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or word:
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)