Famous quotes containing the words plot, sees and/or laurel:
“There saw I how the secret felon wrought,
And treason labouring in the traitor’s thought,
And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“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)