Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

“Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Malcolm. Dispute it like a man.
Macduff. I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man.
I cannot but remember such things were
That were most precious to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)