Scales Fell

Famous quotes containing the words scales and/or fell:

    “In what camera do you taste
    Poison, in what darkness set
    Glittering scales and point
    The tipping tongue?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
    —Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)