Quintessence Played

Famous quotes containing the words quintessence and/or played:

“Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)