Famous quotes containing the word quintessence:
“For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
—Amy Lowell (18741925)
“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: Reason, a thorn in Revelations side.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not menor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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