Famous quotes containing the words master and/or sword:
“As master of the universe, need he fear a master?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“I had not given a penny for a song
Did not the poet sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)