Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or fire:
“I never drank of Aganippe well,
Nor ever did in shade of Tempe sit,
And muses scorn with vulgar brains to dwell;
Poor layman I, for sacred rites unfit.
Some do I hear of poets fury tell,
But, God wot, wot not what they mean by it;
And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,
I am no pickpurse of anothers wit.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the standard principle.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)