Famous quotes containing the words sharp, trailing and/or edge:
“Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razors edge invisible.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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