Perilous

Famous quotes containing the word perilous:

“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of orchids, piled in a great sheath.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)