Male Line Descendants

Famous quotes containing the words male, line and/or descendants:

    “The world’s male chivalry has perished out,
    But women are knights-errant to the last;
    And, if Cervantes had been greater still,
    He had made his Don a Donna.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “This is something that I cannot get over—that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

    “And what if my descendants lose the flower
    Through natural declension of the soul,
    Through too much business with the passing hour,
    Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)