Famous quotes containing the words shaped, cutting and/or edge:
“How will it be with kingdoms and with kings
With those who shaped him to the thing he is
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world,
After the silence of the centuries?”
—Edwin Markham (18521940)
“The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“His poor, crazy, deformed body was a mere Pandoras box, containing all the physical ills that ever afflicted humanity. This, perhaps, whetted the edge of his satire, and may in some degree excuse it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)