Peele Wrote Act

Famous quotes containing the words peele, wrote and/or act:

    Mars and she played even and odd.
    —George Peele (1559–1596)

    I loved, but woman fell away;
    I hid me from her faded fame.
    I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
    And wrote till earth was but a name.
    John Clare (1793–1864)

    The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
    Sydney Smith (1771–1845)