Famous quotes containing the words luxury, trim and/or level:
“The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“It had not a New England but an Oriental character, reminding us of trim Persian gardens, of Haroun Al-raschid, and the artificial lakes of the East.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Let still the woman take
An elder than herself. So wears she to him;
So sways she level in her husbands heart.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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