Perfect Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words perfect, black and/or body:

“A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“A new disease? I know not, new or old,
But it may well be called poor mortals’ plague:
For, like a pestilence, it doth infect
The houses of the brain ...
Till not a thought, or motion, in the mind,
Be free from the black poison of suspect.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)

“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)