Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “One, two and many: flesh had made him blind,
    Flesh had one pleasure only in the act,
    Flesh set one purpose only in the mind—
    Triumph of flesh and afterwards to find
    Still those same terrors wherewith flesh was racked.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)