Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or border:
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)