Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

    “And here the precious dust is layd;
    Whose purely temper’d Clay was made
    So fine, that it the guest betray’d.

    Else the soule grew so fast within,
    It broke the outward shell of sinne,
    And so was hatch’d a Cherubin.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

    “I feel me much to blame
    So idly to profane the precious time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)