Optically Pure Air

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or air:

    Nay but you, who do not love her,
    Is she not pure gold, my mistress?
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.”
    Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)