Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Snug. Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me; for I am slow of study.
Quince. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I pray for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)