Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

“To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him—though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
—Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865–1940)

“For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen’d to break off
I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
H’ had hard words ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)