Famous quotes containing the words plot, sees and/or laurel:
“Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.”
—Jane Rule (b. 1931)
“But carpe diem, Juan, carpe, carpe!
To-morrow sees another race as gay
And transient, and devour’d by the same harpy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)