Scene

Famous quotes containing the word scene:

    “The scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “‘Twas that friends, the belov’d of my bosom, were near,
    Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,”
    —Thomas Moore (1779–1852)