Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

    Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown
    For precious identities of breath.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    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)

    Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)