Pointed Gold

Famous quotes containing the words pointed and/or gold:

“Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to my dead heart run them in!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)