Famous quotes containing the words quicksilver and/or appears:
“the quicksilver art
Throws back the invisible but lightning mass
To inhabit the room; for I have seen it part
The palpable air....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)