Famous quotes containing the words pleasance and/or upstairs:
“Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false world is but transitory;
The flesh is bruckle, the Fiend is slee:
Timor Mortis conturbat me.”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465c. 1530)
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
—Tennessee Williams (19141983)
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