Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“They roused him with muffinsthey roused him with ice
They roused him with mustard and cress
They roused him with jam and judicious advice
They set him conundrums to guess.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)