Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or gordon:
“If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
The sentence of thy early death contain.”
—Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)
“They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn;
The tree will wither long before it fall;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)