Shocking Blue Greatest

Famous quotes containing the words shocking, blue and/or greatest:

    Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “Things as they are
    Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)