Melting Point Increases

Famous quotes containing the words melting, point and/or increases:

“He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“... we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)