Rising Tone

Famous quotes containing the words rising and/or tone:

    “Another day. Deliberations are recessed
    In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon
    On which we wore things and looked well at
    A slab of business rising behind the stars.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)