Pitch Helps

Famous quotes containing the words pitch and/or helps:

“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)